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Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 03:08:45 +1100
Subject: Re: amazing scope?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:05 AM, andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I knew that this works fine, even if I feel a bit guilty to do
> this, and better is:
>
> foo = 'bar' if some_condition else 'baz'
>
> Anyway for me the suprise is that something that is defined *later* at
> the module scope is found in a function which is defined *earlier*.

It's assigned to earlier. It's no different from C code like this:

int foo;

void blah()
{
    /* do stuff with foo */
}

int main()
{
    foo = 1;
}


In Python, the "int foo;" is implicit, but the scope is the same.

ChrisA