[docs] What are the rules for local and global variables in Python?

[Will Clark]

I am a new programmer so feel I have a great propensity to be wrong here, but I wonder if the phrasing here is correct, emphasis mine:

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#what-are-the-rules-for-local-and-global-variables-in-python



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What are the rules for local and global variables in Python?

In Python, variables that are only referenced __inside__ a function are implicitly global. If a variable is assigned a value anywhere within the function’s body, it’s assumed to be a local unless explicitly declared as global. ...
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The text reads that variables which are _only_ referenced *inside* a function will be global, surely this should be *outside*, which I think would also make the following sentence make more sense.






Cheers,
Will





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