> I think you are making an unwarranted assumption about what is "more > expected". I presume you are thinking that the expected behaviour is that > foo() should: > > print global x (5) > assign 1 to local x > print local x (1) > > If we implemented this change, there would be no more questions about > UnboundLocalError, but instead there would be lots of questions like "why is > it that globals revert to their old value after I change them in a > function?". >
True, but this is less confusing and follows the rules in a more straightforward way. x = 1 without a 'global x' assigns a local x, this make sense and is similar to what happens in C where an inner declaration temporarily shadows a global one. Eli
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