[issue24187] del statement documentation doesn't mention name binding behaviour

[Jon]

Jon added the comment:

Sorry, I think I just misread this section.  I was confused by the fact that del binds names like assignment does, so that the following tries to delete a local name and fails:

  x = 1
  def f():
    del x
  f()

In fact the documentation does say that there must be global statement in the block for del to delete a global name, so my bad.

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resolution:  -> not a bug
status: open -> closed

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