Dumb newbie back in shell

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:31:01 -0800, MartinRinehart wrote:

> But that gets me to:
> 
> ... line 110, in get_toks
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'line_ptr' referenced before
> assignment
> 
> Here's a bit of the code, with line #s
> 
> ...
> 68 global line_ptr
> 69 global char_ptr
> ...
> 75 line_ptr = 0
> 76 char_ptr = 0
> ...
> 109 def get_toks( text ):
> 110     while line_ptr < last_line:
> ...
> So when is a global var global?

When you declare it ``global`` *in the function*.  ``global`` on module
level has no effect.  IMHO that should emit at least a warning…

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch