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Python list comprehension leaks variables

At the last Free Thursday someone told me that Python list comprehensions leak variables. I didn't believe it, but after testing it quickly, it turns out to be true:

foo = [1, 2, 3]
bar = [x+1 for x in foo]
print x

The above prints out "3". I would have expected it to give a NameError exception.

This turns out to be a known, and deprecated feature in Python 2.5 (see the reference manual), and it will probably be fixed in Python 3000, some time in the future.