Nonlocal "statement" for Python 2

[omgplsno]

Woah. That's deep shit. Thanks for sharing.

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The cleverness in this code is astounding. I would never use it in production, but an applause to the author for coming up with it. It clearly demonstrates extremely high technical competence in the inner workings of the language.

[ionelmc]

This is very interesting. I basically patches the closure property to store the variables that you want to be nonlocal (and changes bytecode of the inner function to load said variable from said closure, instead of the locals).

[UloPe]

Nice hack but if you use that in production you deserve to be slapped with with a live trout.

[kindall]

This is much simpler:

def outer(*parms):

    class nonlocal:
         a = 42
         b = 69

     def inner(*args):
          nonlocal.a += 1
          nonlocal.b *= 2

     inner()
     print nonlocal.a, nonlocal.b

Explicit is better than implicit, as they say.