http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/tags/scope/Recent content in Scope on Karpoke - Just Another BlogHugo -- 0.167.0esWed, 18 Feb 2015 00:04:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/02/18/the-scope-of-index-variables-in-pythons-for-loops/Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:04:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/02/18/the-scope-of-index-variables-in-pythons-for-loops/<blockquote> <blockquote> <p>The Python reference documentation explicitly documents this behavior in the section on for loops:</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>The for-loop makes assignments to the variables(s) in the target list. [&hellip;] Names in the target list are not deleted when the loop is finished, but if the sequence is empty, they will not have been assigned to at all by the loop.</p> </blockquote> </blockquote> <p>» Eli Bendersky | <a href="http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2015/the-scope-of-index-variables-in-pythons-for-loops/">eli.thegreenplace.net</a></p>