On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:31:01 -0800, MartinRinehart wrote: > But that gets me to: > > ... line 110, in get_toks > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'line_ptr' referenced before > assignment > > Here's a bit of the code, with line #s > > ... > 68 global line_ptr > 69 global char_ptr > ... > 75 line_ptr = 0 > 76 char_ptr = 0 > ... > 109 def get_toks( text ): > 110 while line_ptr < last_line: > ... > So when is a global var global?
When you declare it ``global`` *in the function*. ``global`` on module level has no effect. IMHO that should emit at least a warning… Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list