amazing scope?

[Prasad, Ramit]

andrea crotti
> 
> I wrote a script, refactored it and then introducing a bug as below:
> 
> def record_things():
>     out.write("Hello world")
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     with open('output', 'w') as out:
>         record_things()
> 
> 
> but the shocking thing is that it didn't actually stopped working, it
> still works perfectly!
> 
> What my explanation might be is that the "out" is declared at module
> level somehow,
> but that's not really intuitive and looks wrong, and works both on
> Python 2.7 and 3.2..

Makes sense to me. `out` is declared in an if statement. If statements
have no "scope" and it is not in a function so it gets added to the 
module's namespace.


~Ramit


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