On Tue, Apr 23, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Changing LOAD_FAST so that
>> x = 1
> def f():
> print x
> x = 2
> print x
>> prints 1 followed by 2 instead of raising UnboundLocalError would not
> break existing code (except code relying on specific exceptions to be
> raised -- but such code is always exempt from non-breakage
> guarantees).
-1
I agree with Jeremy that such code is by definition broken because it
mixes global and local usage of the same variable within the same scope.
That's a nightmare for visual inspection.
BTW, the indentation came out bizarrely because you used a TAB char for
indentation. Naughty, naughty.
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