On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > Because, in the real world, that example looks something like > > def broken(intelligence_level): > if intelligence_level < 100: > return dumb_down(intellegence_level) > else: > return make_harder(intelligence_level) > broken(op.iq) > > Pylint, pyflakes or some other such linter should catch it, but this > happens ALL THE TIME in actual development, occasionally leaking into > production.
That's actually an argument in favour of declared variables. NameError becomes a parse-time failure :) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
