[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Mariatta Wijaya added the comment: Thanks for the PR, Ivan. Merged and backported to 3.5 and 3.6. -- nosy: +Mariatta resolution: -> fixed stage: needs patch -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

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[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

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[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

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[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Changes by Mariatta Wijaya : -- keywords: +easy stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Ivan Levkivskyi added the comment: It looks like it is safe to just remove this line from docs. This code >>> x = 1 >>> def f(): ... global x ... del x ... >>> f() >>> x Works as expected, i.e. raises NameError. (The same happens for nonlocal but with UnboundLocalError.) --

[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

New submission from Nick Coghlan: While committing issue #24129, I noticed the following in the execution model documentation: == If a variable is referenced in an enclosing scope, it is illegal to delete the name. An error will be reported at compile time. ==

[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Nick Coghlan added the comment: Note that I haven't attempted to resolve this myself, as I'm not sure if we should just delete the paragraph, or if we accidentally dropped a compile time error check that didn't have any tests somewhere along the line. Probably a good one to raise on

[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Steven D'Aprano added the comment: I wonder if it is a left-over from the behaviour prior to 3.2? In 3.1, I get this syntax error: py def outer(): ... spam = 1 ... def inner(): ... nonlocal spam ... del spam ... inner() ... SyntaxError: can not delete

[issue24796] Deleting names referencing from enclosed and enclosing scopes

Changes by Ivan Levkivskyi levkivs...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +levkivskyi ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue24796 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list