[Python-Dev] more timely detection of unbound locals (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed May 11 00:38:53 CEST 2011


Nick Coghlan wrote:

Personally, I would just add "in current scope" to the existing error message for the unbound local case (and potentially collapse the exception hierarchy a bit by setting UnboundLocalError = NameError).

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That was the case prior to Python 2.0. Reverting is potentially a semantic change that will break any code that distinguishes between (global) NameError and (local) UnboundLocalError. But personally, I don't know why it was thought necessary to distinguish between them in the first place.

-- Steven



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