[Python-Dev] elimination of scope bleeding ofiteration variables

Tue May 2 10:09:40 CEST 2006

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote:
>> > So would this also be a SyntaxError?
> > 
> > for x in stuff:
> > x = somethingelse
>> That would be something to be debated. I don't
> really mind much one way or the other.

 for line in lines:
 line = line.rstrip()
 ...
I'm generally -0 on the "raise a SyntaxError" in this particular case,
and am +0 on the double use below:
 for x in y:
 for x in z:
 - Josiah