Josh Rosenberg <[email protected]> added the comment:
I'm inclined to close as Not a Bug as well. I'm worried the expanded error
message would confuse people when they simply failed to assign a variable, and
make them try bad workarounds like adding global/nonlocal when it's not the
problem, e.g.:
def foo(bar):
if bar > 0:
baz = 'a'
elif bar < 0:
baz = 'b'
return baz
Even if baz exists in an outer scope, they almost certainly didn't intend to
use it, they just didn't properly account for all the paths to ensure baz is
initialized. Adding a global or nonlocal declaration would make calling with
zero as the arg "work" if the function was called with a non-zero value first,
but it wouldn't be correct. When the error message suggests a fix, people tend
to do it without thinking critically (or understanding the underlying problem),
which is worse than a message without a fix where solving it involves learning
what it actually means.
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nosy: +josh.r
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