On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 8:01 PM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 05:03:09AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > def foo(): > > if False: x = 0 > > # what is x now? > > > > There is no *value* in x, yet x has a state. > > In Python code, no, it has no state, it's just an unbound name. That's > literally a name that has nothing bound to it, hence no state. >
Is the UnboundLocalError that you'd get on trying to access 'x' a CPython implementation detail or a language feature? If it's a language feature, then the name 'x' must be in the state of "local variable without a value". This is a valid situation. There is no value, but this is the state of the variable. It's not "no state" any more than zero is a non-number or NULL is a non-pointer. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KLTFG3E7WB5R42OWJ3NL2VQ6NSTJO5CK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
