Pierre-Antoine BRAMERET added the comment:
Hi,
Tanks for your clear answer. I find it surprising that "del" bounds the name
locally, but with little more thinking, it is not...
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resolution: -> not a bug
status: open -> closed
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Mark Dickinson added the comment:
So while the behaviour is surprising, the language is behaving as designed:
the target of `del` is considered to be a local variable for the entire
function definition. (In much the same way, the targets of simple assignments
are considered local, so if you'
Pierre-Antoine BRAMERET added the comment:
Sorry, I miscopied the last Traceback. Please find the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "", line 4, in __init__
assert Foo
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'Foo' referenced before assignment
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New submission from Pierre-Antoine BRAMERET:
Hi,
With the following code:
class Base(object): pass
class Foo(Base):
def __init__(self):
super(Foo,self).__init__()
if False:
del Foo
I expect that Foo() would give me a Foo instance. Instead, it raises the
following exception:
