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Writing the following code in the IDLE module/scriptneditor and then running it (F5) will momentarily freeze without giving the expected warning message ("SyntaxWarning: name 'GLOBAL1' is used prior to global declaration") and it will crash all IDLE windows instances if ran multiple times after it.
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start code snippet:
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GLOBAL1=10
def test_chnge_val_1(a=1):
## global GLOBAL1
 b=GLOBAL1
 print GLOBAL1, b
 global GLOBAL1
 GLOBAL1 += a
 b= 100
 print GLOBAL1, b
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
 test_chnge_val_1()
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end code snippet:
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The desired behavior is to not crash but run the code with output and shoot the expected message to STOUT/shell console like regular python shell would.
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Notes:
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issue_global_crash.py code-file attached.