On 2006-07-24 16:51:56, danielx wrote: > Gerhard's reply sounded not so confident.
Yes, it is not. It's just the conclusion I drew from my experiments. (I'm still all wet behind the ears WRT Python...) As long as there was no write access to the variable, the inner function could read the value just fine. When there was a write access, the first read (if it was before the write access) bombed with that error message that there was a read without a previous write. (Actually, it wasn't a simple read, it was that "len(var)" access. I'm not sure a normal read would bomb the same way. But the error message was that it was a read access without a previous write.) So that was just my conclusion. It is also consistent with the observation that variables seem to be known in their scope, even before the location of their first appearance. > Can we have someone who "really" knows weigh in on this? That would be nice :) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
