List comprehensions also "leak" their loop variable into the surrounding scope. This will also change in Python 3.0, so that the semantic definition of a list comprehension in Python 3.0 will be equivalent to list(<generator expression>). Python 2.4 and beyond should issue a deprecation warning if a list comprehension's loop variable has the same name as a variable used in the immediately surrounding scope.

 ~  python3                                                                            Sun 06 Jun 2021 12:48:43 PM CEST
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>>> i = 6
>>> x = [i for i in [5]]
>>> x
[5]
>>> i
6