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by throwaway_pdp09 2216 days ago
Not sure I understand, defs have lexical scoping too, if you just read variables (or am I getting rusty?).

  x = 3

  def prt():
      print(x)

  prt()
prints 3, as expected.

It's when you assign that you need P3's global etc. annotations, and you can't assign in lambdas.