[Python-Dev] global variable modification in functions [Re: elimination of scope bleeding of iteration variables] (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 2 13:32:15 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

And for the case where the compiler can tell the variable is accessed before it's defined, there's definitely something wrong. This code, for example, is definitely missing a "global" and the compiler could in principle tell:

foo = 1 def bar(): foo+=1 So I see no problem (in principle, as opposed to implementation) with issuing a warning or even a compilation error for that code. (And it's wrong even if the snippet I showed is in a nested function definition, although the error would be different.) If I recall correctly, the new compiler uses a control-flow graph that could possibly be used to determine whether there is a path on which a local could be read before it's stored.

I think symtable.c could wander back up the lexical block stack checking that target names are defined for augmented assignment statements.

That said, while I'd be happy to review a patch, I'm not going to try to write one :)

Cheers, Nick.

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