Re: Curious UnboundLocalError Behavior

I'm probably fundamentally misunderstanding the way the interpreter
works with regard to scope, but is this the intended behavior...


[....]

SOMEGLOBAL:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "unboundlocal.py", line 15, in ?
foo()
File "unboundlocal.py", line 11, in foo
print "SOMEGLOBAL:",SOMEGLOBAL
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'SOMEGLOBAL' referenced before assignment

[......]

import os,sys

SOMEGLOBAL=1

def foo():
dome=False
if dome:
SOMEGLOBAL = 0

print globals()
print "SOMEGLOBAL:",SOMEGLOBAL

print os.uname()
print sys.version
foo()



Try:

import os,sys

SOMEGLOBAL=1

def foo():
global SOMEGLOBAL
dome=False
if dome:
SOMEGLOBAL = 0

print globals()
print "SOMEGLOBAL:",SOMEGLOBAL

print os.uname()
print sys.version
foo()

HTH,
Daniel
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