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Comment by anonymoushn | Hacker News Reader

Python and JavaScript are languages that do not behave the way you mentioned.

JS works that way with plain for loops, but not for-in or for-of. The following fails on the last line, for example:

  for (const i in [1,2,3,4]) {
    alert(i);
  }
  alert("i is now " + i); // ReferenceError

(Not that JS is exactly known for consistent and predictable behavior on edge cases, of course...)

Python I don’t have experience with, and it appears I stand corrected on that front! I wonder how intentional it is, and what sort of use case it enables (and if it’s considered good practice to use).

Python does this mostly because it doesn't have block scope, only function scope like JS's `var`. After using Python for a decade, I think this is mostly a mistake. I would configure (or edit) my linter to prevent me from using it if I needed to write a lot more Python.

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