On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Ramchandra Apte <maniandra...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I get UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment. > That's strange, I'd expect the first print statement to print 10, not > generate an exception. > A variable is either local or global. It is decided at the compile time. If there is an assignment to a variable inside a function, it is considered as local unless it is explicitly declared as global. This rule doesn't apply to class definitions. Here is some exercises/puzzles related to scoping rules in Python. I use these in my advanced python course. http://anandology.com/apy/slides/scoping-rules.html Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
