On Tue, 10 May 2011 13:56:58 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 5/10/2011 10:59 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:11 PM, R. David Murray<rdmur...@bitdance.com> > > wrote: > >> How about: > >> > >> "reference to variable 'y' precedes an assignment that makes it a local > >> variable" > > > > For comparison, the error messages I was able to elicit from 2.7 were > > as follows: > > > > # Module level > > NameError: name 'bob' is not defined > > > > # Function level reference to implicit global > > NameError: global name 'bob' is not defined > > > > # Early reference to local > > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'bob' referenced before assignment > > I would change this to > "local name 'bob' used before the assignment that makes it a local name" > > Calling names 'variables' is itself a point of confusion.
Yes, your phrasing is much better. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
