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Re: free and nonlocal variables

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: free and nonlocal variables
Date 2013-03-21 07:55 -0400
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On 3/21/2013 4:52 AM, bartolome.sintes@gmail.com wrote:
> In Python 3, "free variable" and "nonlocal variable" are synonym terms?

Yes, but that is idiosyncratic to Python.

> Or is there a difference, like "a free variable is a variable that is
> not a local variable, then nonlocal variables and global variables are
 > both free variables"?

I believe that is the usual definition, such as you would find on Wikipedia.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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free and nonlocal variables bartolome.sintes@gmail.com - 2013-03-21 01:52 -0700
  Re: free and nonlocal variables 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2013-03-21 02:34 -0700
  Re: free and nonlocal variables Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-21 11:00 +0000
  Re: free and nonlocal variables Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-21 07:55 -0400
  Re: free and nonlocal variables Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-03-21 19:05 +0000
    Re: free and nonlocal variables Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-03-21 22:36 +0200

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