Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: This isn't a bug; it's by design.
Because there's an assignment to 'a' in the function 'y', 'a' is considered local to that function. (It doesn't matter where the assignment happens within the function; the presence of an assignment anywhere is enough to make 'a' local for the entirety of 'y'.) This is described in the reference manual at: http://docs.python.org/reference/executionmodel.html#naming-and-binding See the paragraph beginning: "If a name binding operation occurs anywhere within a code block, " ---------- nosy: +mark.dickinson resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9049> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
