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Re:How I Animate 3Blue1Brown by rzzzt on Saturday October 12, 2024 @04:53PM (#41822463)
Python has nested functions which does allow access to the nest...er function's variables. The rest does conform to expectations, you get to use parameters, locally declared variables and globals.
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Re:How I Animate 3Blue1Brown by antonvs on Saturday October 12, 2024 @08:02PM (#41823910)
I'm not too familiar with Python, but isn't that just lexical scope, the same as most languages that support nested functions? Starting with the lambda calculus and all the languages it influenced, including even JavaScript.
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Re:How I Animate 3Blue1Brown by meowface on Saturday October 12, 2024 @09:27PM (#41824385)
Correct. It behaves like JavaScript and many other languages. You can't modify such variables in the outer scope from the inner scope unless you explicitly use the "nonlocal" declaration.
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