[Python-Dev] replacing 'global'
Just van Rossum
just at letterror.com
Sun Oct 26 10:58:13 EST 2003
Aahz wrote:
> Sounds good to me. Question: what does this do?
>
> def f():
> def g(x):
> z := x
> g(3)
> print z
> return g
> g = f()
> print z
> g('foo')
> print z
>
> That is, in the absence of a pre-existing binding, where does the
> binding for := go? I think it should be equivalent to global, going
> to the module scope.
I think it should raise NameError or UnboundLocalError or a new
NameError subclass. "In the face of ambiguity, etc."
Just
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