Code Completion 5 Challenges

Complete the Python scopes and namespaces code

Practice local name resolution, global rebinding, and nonlocal rebinding.

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Complete the nested function so it prints the enclosing function value.

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def outer():
    topic = "scopes"

    def inner():

    inner()

outer()

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Declare count as a module-level binding so the function can increment it.

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count = 0

def increase():
    count += 1

increase()
print(count)

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Declare count as the enclosing function binding so next_count() can update it.

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def make_counter():
    count = 0

    def next_count():
        count += 1
        return count

    return next_count

counter = make_counter()
print(counter())

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Make the function read the module-level count without assigning to it.

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count = 10

def show_count():

show_count()

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Complete add_bonus() by creating its own local total before updating it. Do not use global; the function should return 15.

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def add_bonus():
    return total

print(add_bonus())

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