"snoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also why is it if I set tmp as a global and don't pass it as a > paremeter to the various functions as per the OP that I get an > "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'tmp' referenced before assignment"?
If you don't declare it as a global, and if you try to assign a value to it, then Python thinks it's a local. If you only refer to it and never assign it, Python decides it's global. Python is weird that way. One consequence is that if it's local to some outer scope, then it's neither global nor local to your function, so there's no way to assign to it. I think Pythonic style is to not do complex things with closures, but to use class instances instead. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
