help with NameError

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Shadri Shah:
> I request help in understanding why I'm getting NameError
> here in the code below:
> 
> import re
> 
> def t(s):
>     k = []
>     
>     def g(j):
>         global k
>         k.append(j.group(0))

There's no global variable k.  (k is not in the top-level module
scope, it's in t's scope.  With sufficiently recent Python you
have nested scopes, which means that here you can just refer to k.
No global statement needed or desired.)

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Steven Taschuk                            staschuk at telusplanet.net
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