Pyflakes doesn't properly handle del inside function definition
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Description
a = 1
def test():
a = 2
del a
print(a)
test()
The code produces UnboundLocalError: local variable 'a' referenced before assignment, but pyflakes shows now errors.
The reason this code raises an exception is that local variables are determined statically at compile time, not at runtime, so the a = 2 line forces a to be function local inside of test. The del a does not make it global again (it is impossible to "make a local variable global again").
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Start by running Pyflakes on the example code in the issue and trace how function-local assignments and del a are handled. Done means Pyflakes reports the invalid later use of a, with a regression test covering this example; no source file or test path is named in the issue.
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- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
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