En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:44:54 -0200, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> Duncan Booth wrote:
>>
>> The first sentence (which hasn't changed since 2.4) describing the
>> global
>> statement seems clear enough to me: "The global statement is a
>> declaration
>> which holds for the entire current code block."
>
> I don't think that would stop the OP from thinking the global
> statement had to be executed. In the code example, it seems to have
> been stuck in a
>
> if 1==2: global a
>
> and it still worked.
The future statement is another example, even worse:
if 0:
from __future__ import with_statement
with open("xxx") as f:
print f
All import statements are executable, only this special form is not. That
"global" and "__future__" are directives and not executable statements, is
confusing.
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