Variable name has a typo, but code still works. Why?
Max Erickson
maxerickson at gmail.com
Wed May 31 11:05:38 EDT 2006
"mateus" <mateus.justino at gmail.com> wrote:
> print "hello world"
>
> I have a nested loop where the outer loop iterates over key value
> pairs of a dictionary and the inner loop iterates over a list
> each list of which is a mapped value from the dictionary
>
> def showReport(self):
> for dev, sessions in self.logger.items():
> for tree in session:
> self.addTestItem(self, tree)
>
> What I don't understand is why this executes w/o any problems
> when "sessions" was spelled as plural (sessionS) while later
> being spelled in the singular (session).
>
> Is there some type of name resolution of local variables where
> Python makes assumptions?
>
Is self.logger.items() empty?
This does not raise a NameError even when 'explode' is not defined:
for x in []:
explode
max
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