[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

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[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 02f3bf3f74aa by Robert Collins in branch '2.7': Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/02f3bf3f74aa New changeset 941b9c27b8c8 by Robert Collins in branch '3.4': Issue #23589: R

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Robert Collins added the comment: @Demian, I agree that there are more improvements we can make. The current patch addresses the specific issue of this bug, and if you wished to make a new issue with further improvements that would be great. I'm going to apply this patch now though. -

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Demian Brecht added the comment: Not to throw a wrench into this, but would it perhaps not be worthwhile to refactor this section in order to include nonlocals as well (obviously not for 2.7)? It seems a little odd to me to have this amount of detail without mentioning nonlocal. -- no

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Yongzhi Pan added the comment: Or: In Python, variables inside a function that are only referenced but not assigned are implicitly global.? -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Yongzhi Pan added the comment: What about changing the first sentence to: In Python, variables that are only referenced but not assigned inside a function are implicitly global.? -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Ezio Melotti added the comment: I think the first sentence could be improved, even though it's correct. A superficial reading might give the impression that function variables are implicitly global, or that only the variables inside a function are global, especially if the reader is not familia

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Yongzhi Pan added the comment: Updated diff as Raymond's wording. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38340/faq_fix_1.diff ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: How about: In Python, variables that are only referenced inside a function are implicitly global. If a variable is assigned a value anywhere within the function's body, it's assumed to be a local unless explicitly declared as global. -- nosy: +rhett

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- assignee: docs@python -> ezio.melotti nosy: +ezio.melotti stage: -> commit review versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker _

[issue23589] Redundant sentence in FAQ

New submission from Yongzhi Pan: In https://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#what-are-the-rules-for-local-and-global-variables-in-python, two sentences of essentially the same meaning exist. I try to remove this redundancy. -- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation file