[docs] [issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Ivan Levkivskyi report at bugs.python.org
Sat Mar 18 09:39:06 EDT 2017


Ivan Levkivskyi added the comment:

It looks like it is safe to just remove this line from docs. This code

>>> x = 1
>>> def f():
...     global x
...     del x
... 
>>> f()
>>> x

Works as expected, i.e. raises NameError. (The same happens for nonlocal but with UnboundLocalError.)

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