Re: Variable name has a typo, but code still works. Why?



mateus wrote:
print "hello world"

I have a nested loop where the outer loop iterates over key value pairs
of a dictionary and the inner loop iterates over a list each list of
which is a mapped value from the dictionary

def showReport(self):
for dev, sessions in self.logger.items():
for tree in session:
self.addTestItem(self, tree)

What I don't understand is why this executes w/o any problems when
"sessions" was spelled as plural (sessionS) while later being spelled
in the singular (session).

Is there some type of name resolution of local variables where Python
makes assumptions?


No. You are probably running your script in an ide that keeps an old variable hanging around.

Try it from a command promt.


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