Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations?

From	Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject	Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations?
Date	2013-10-21 15:51 -0400
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On 10/21/2013 11:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Try typing this into IDLE:
>
>>>> def a():
>      def b():
>          nonlocal q
> SyntaxError: no binding for nonlocal 'q' found

If you submit those three lines to Python from the command line, that is 
what you see.

> In interactive command-line Python, this doesn't throw an error,
> it works fine if the name is used later:
>
>>>> def a():
>      def b():
>          nonlocal q
>          q+=1

I verified that interactive Python also syntax checks each line as 
entered, even for compound statements. Details should be left to the 
tracker issue you raised.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-21 15:51 -0400
  Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-21 23:52 +0000
    Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-10-21 23:26 -0400
      Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-22 05:57 +0000
        Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-22 17:24 +1100
        Newline in bash, was Re: IDLE being too clever checking nonlocal declarations? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-10-22 09:20 +0200

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