Ted Meyer added the comment: Sorry everyone, it appears I made a mistake pasting the code in here. There was a type where I was trying to print local_val instead of local_var. the code should be this:
import signal def sig_hdlr(signum, frame): raise ValueError() def faulty(): local_var = "" signal.signal(signal.SIGALRM, sig_hdlr) signal.alarm(1) try: while True: local_var += "!" except ValueError: print (local_var) faulty() and the crash should be this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "pybug.py", line 12, in faulty local_var += "!" File "pybug.py", line 4, in sig_hdlr raise ValueError() ValueError During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "pybug.py", line 16, in <module> faulty() File "pybug.py", line 14, in faulty print (local_var) UnboundLocalError: local variable 'local_var' referenced before assignment ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29096> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com