Two curious errors when function globals are manipulated

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 02:13 am, eryk sun wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>> It works with exec:
[...]
> No, actually it doesn't work. Remember that when you store to a
> variable, it's implicitly a local variable, for which CPython uses
> STORE_NAME in unoptimized code. To test this properly you need to
> declare the variable as global, so that it uses STORE_GLOBAL:

/face-palm

Of course you're right, I knew that. Sorry for the noise.






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Steven
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