On May 16, 9:57 am, HMS Surprise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked in the language but did not find a switch for requiring > variables to be declared before use. > > Is such an option available? > > Thanks, > > jvh
You do have to declare a variable before use. You do so by assigning it a value. You can't use a variable before it has been assigned. In some ways this is less ambiguous than even C where you can declare a variable without assigning a value. Also note that this caries the type information, since the variable is of whatever type was assigned to it. The only thing it doesn't do is give a unique flag that says "hey this is where I'm declared", although I suppose you could do that with a comment. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
