Re: [Proposal] _LOCAL was: Re: how to call a local function by its name?

[Parke <parke.nexus@...>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Worse, [Python's local-by-default] makes upvalues very challenging, as they are neither local
> nor global yet no way exists to explicitly target them in Python 2.x.
> (If you try to assign to an upvalue, you instead create a new local
> that shadows it!)

Is this fixed in Python 3.x?

In any case, it is not inherently a problem with local-by-default
(which I prefer).  There could be a way to assign to upvalues.  Python
(at least Python 2.x) just lacks such a mechanism.

-Parke