amazing scope?

Date	2012-11-30 11:11 +0000
Subject	amazing scope?
From	andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.380.1354273891.29569.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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I wrote a script, refactored it and then introducing a bug as below:

def record_things():
    out.write("Hello world")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    with open('output', 'w') as out:
        record_things()


but the shocking thing is that it didn't actually stopped working, it
still works perfectly!

What my explanation might be is that the "out" is declared at module
level somehow,
but that's not really intuitive and looks wrong, and works both on
Python 2.7 and 3.2..

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amazing scope? andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 11:11 +0000
  Re: amazing scope? Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-11-30 12:23 +0100
    Re: amazing scope? andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-11-30 16:05 +0000
    Re: amazing scope? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-01 03:08 +1100
    Re: amazing scope? Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-30 17:57 -0500

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