Curious UnboundLocalError Behavior

[Daniel Nogradi]

> I'm probably fundamentally misunderstanding the way the interpreter
> works with regard to scope, but is this the intended behavior...
>

[....]

> SOMEGLOBAL:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "unboundlocal.py", line 15, in ?
>     foo()
>   File "unboundlocal.py", line 11, in foo
>     print "SOMEGLOBAL:",SOMEGLOBAL
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'SOMEGLOBAL' referenced before assignment

[......]

> import os,sys
>
> SOMEGLOBAL=1
>
> def foo():
>     dome=False
>     if dome:
>         SOMEGLOBAL = 0
>
>     print globals()
>     print "SOMEGLOBAL:",SOMEGLOBAL
>
> print os.uname()
> print sys.version
> foo()
>


Try:

import os,sys

SOMEGLOBAL=1

def foo():
    global SOMEGLOBAL
    dome=False
    if dome:
        SOMEGLOBAL = 0

    print globals()
    print "SOMEGLOBAL:",SOMEGLOBAL

print os.uname()
print sys.version
foo()

HTH,
Daniel