On Jan 25, 5:31 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:04:42 -0800, Tim Rau wrote:
> > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'nextID' referenced before assignment
>
> When you assign to a name in Python, the compiler treats it as a local
> variable. S
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:28:05 -0800, Tim Rau wrote:
>> Because you don't assign to allThings, and therefore it is treated as
>> global.
>>
>>
> Hmm so I can't assign to globals in a local environment? How do I
> make it see that I'm assigning to a global?
I thought somebody had already mentio
On Jan 25, 5:31 am, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:04:42 -0800, Tim Rau wrote:
> > UnboundLocalError: local variable 'nextID' referenced before assignment
>
> When you assign to a name in Python, the compiler treats it as a local
> variable. S
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:04:42 -0800, Tim Rau wrote:
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'nextID' referenced before assignment
When you assign to a name in Python, the compiler treats it as a local
variable. So when you have a line like this:
nextID += 1 # equivalent to nextID = nextID + 1
you
Tim Rau wrote:
> I'm sorry: I forgot to say what my problem was. Python seems to think
> that nextID is a local, and complains that it can't find it. THis is
> not the full text of the function, just the level that is causing
> errors. the lack of : on the if is a transcription error.
> Traceback
On Jan 24, 7:09 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:37:09 -0800, Tim Rau wrote:
> > What makes python decide whether a particular variable
> > is global or local?
>
> For starters, if the line of code is not inside a class or function, that
> i
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:37:09 -0800, Tim Rau wrote:
> What makes python decide whether a particular variable
> is global or local?
For starters, if the line of code is not inside a class or function, that
is, it's at the top level of a module, it is global.
More interesting is if it is inside a
Tim Rau schrieb:
> What makes python decide whether a particular variable is global or
> local? I've got a list and a integer, both defined at top level, no
> indentation, right next to each other:
>
> allThings = []
> nextID = 0
>
> and yet, in the middle of a function, python sees one and doesn
