Roughly speaking, namespaces are just containers for mapping names to objects. As you might have already heard, everything in Python - literals, lists, dictionaries, functions, classes, etc. - is an ...

A Beginner's Guide to Python's Namespaces, Scope Resolution, and the LEGB Rule This is a short tutorial about Python's namespaces and the scope resolution for variable names using the LEGB-rule. The ...

LEGB: local, enclosing, global, built-in So how exactly does Python go about finding identifiers, including free variables in functions? Python uses the “LEGB” rule: local, enclosing, global and built ...