[Python-Dev] Using and binding relative names (was Re: PEP for Better Control of Nested Lexical Scopes)

Sun Feb 26 15:27:34 CET 2006

Why would you change the Python scoping rules, instead of using the 
function attributes, available from release 2.1 (PEP 232) ?
For example, you may write:
def incgen(start, inc):
 def incrementer():
 incrementer.a += incrementer.b
 return incrementer.a
 incrementer.a = start - inc
 incrementer.b = inc
 return incrementer
f = incgen(100, 2)
g = incgen(200, 3)
for i in range(5):
 print f(), g()
The result is:
100 200
102 203
104 206
106 209
108 212