[Python-Dev] 2.5 and beyond

Fri Jun 30 12:05:48 CEST 2006

Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> writes:
> On 2006年6月30日, Neal Norwitz wrote:
>> The current list of serious bugs are in the PEP:
>>>> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0356/
>> Among them is this one:
>> Incorrect LOAD/STORE_GLOBAL generation
> http://python.org/sf/1501934
>> The question is, what behaviour is preferable for this code:
>> g = 1
> def f():
> g += 1
>> f()
>> Should this raise an UnboundLocalError or should it increment g?

I didn't think there was any question: this change in behaviour from
2.4 is just an accidental change, a bug that should be fixed. If you
want to elevate it to feature status, I think we've missed the freeze
:) (and also, I oppose the idea).

Cheers,
mwh
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