None assigment

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <_BHg6.195181$ge4.67634054 at news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>,
Rainer Deyke <root at rainerdeyke.com> wrote:
>"Aahz Maruch" <aahz at panix.com> wrote in message
>news:95umoi$is5$1 at panix2.panix.com...
>>
>> What you're missing is the issue of Python scopes.  Try this:
>>
>> b=2
>> def foo():
>>     b=4
>>     print b
>>     del b
>>     global b
>>     print b
>> foo()
>
>And what *you*'re missing is that whether a variable is local or global is
>determined at compile time (in the absensce of 'exec' or 'from ... import
>*').  The above does not work.  

It doesn't, eh?  Did you try running it?  (After a few blunders of my
own, I rarely post code to c.l.py without testing it -- just to make
sure.)  Note that this is not the same as the issue with None, but it's
still a scoping issue.
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