[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Fri Jun 30 12:05:48 CEST 2006

Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> writes:

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006, Neal Norwitz wrote:

The current list of serious bugs are in the PEP:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0356/ Among them is this one: Incorrect LOAD/STOREGLOBAL generation http://python.org/sf/1501934 The question is, what behaviour is preferable for this code: g = 1 def f(): g += 1 f() Should this raise an UnboundLocalError or should it increment g?

I didn't think there was any question: this change in behaviour from 2.4 is just an accidental change, a bug that should be fixed. If you want to elevate it to feature status, I think we've missed the freeze :) (and also, I oppose the idea).

Cheers, mwh

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