Python doesn't follow it's own scoping rules?

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Danner <tdanner at drpepper.baker.rice.edu> writes:

> Apologies - I didn't find the answer in the Language Reference, so I gave
> up. After posting this, I thought to look in the *tutorial*, and it was quite
> clearly explained. I should have written:

FWIW, with Python 1.5.2+ (i.e. from CVS):

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "<stdin>", line 2, in death_and_destruction
UnboundLocalError: a

which makes rather more sense!

Cheers,
Michael