In message <4cb14f8c$0$1627$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote:
> Within "fn1", the first reference to "self.classvar" references the class-
> level version of "classvar". The assignment overrides that and creates an
> object-level instance of "self.classvar". Further references to
> self.classvar" in f1 then reference the object-level "classvar"
I’d say there is definitely an inconsistency with the absoutely anal
restrictions on global variables, i.e. the well-known sequence
... reference to globalvar ...
globalvar = newvalue
which triggers the error “UnboundLocalError: local variable 'globalvar'
referenced before assignment”.
It seems to me the same principle, that of disallowing implicit overriding
of a name from an outer scope with that from an inner one after the former
has already been referenced, should be applied here as well.
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