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Sun Jul 2 02:22:46 CEST 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/066930.html

> Don't recall what that was, but creating a new scope on each iteration
> sounds hard to explain in Python.

I don't think it's particularly hard to explain.  For example, one way to
explain it is to say that

	for i in <<stuff>>:
		body

is equivalent to

	for <<hiddenvar>> in <<stuff>>:
		local i = <<hiddenvar>>
		body

This explanation doesn't need to rest on recursion.

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