Question about scope
Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundraware.com
Thu Jul 5 17:10:01 EDT 2001
I thought I understood python scoping, but I guess I don't. Consider this
code:
FALSE = 0
TRUE = not FALSE
FLAG = TRUE
def FlagFalse():
FLAG = FALSE
print str(FLAG)
FlagFalse()
print str(FLAG)
I get:
1
1
But I expected:
1
0
If I declare FLAG as global in the function, it works properly, of course.
I thought that python checked local scope for a variable first and if
it did not find it, it appealed to the local namespace. What am I missing
here - it's probably at the end of my nose, but I cannot seem to make sense
of it...
TIA,
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Tim Daneliuk
tundra at tundraware.com
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