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

Andrew Koenig ark at acm.org
Fri Jun 30 18:30:28 CEST 2006


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 think it should increment (i.e. rebind) g, for the same reason that

g = [1]
def f():
    g[0] += 1
f()

rebinds g[0].



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