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| author | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-07-29 18:20:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-07-29 18:20:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 8ed48182896729baf063e8bae349fc7f40917f08 (patch) | |
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| parent | e625e7c793d6fbbc07ddb94e7eaacda15c49ca99 (diff) | |
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Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/faq/programming.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index 1a71c47..2d3cb1c 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -187,10 +187,8 @@ What are the rules for local and global variables in Python? ------------------------------------------------------------ In Python, variables that are only referenced inside a function are implicitly -global. If a variable is assigned a new value anywhere within the function's -body, it's assumed to be a local. If a variable is ever assigned a new value -inside the function, the variable is implicitly local, and you need to -explicitly declare it as 'global'. +global. If a variable is assigned a value anywhere within the function's body, +it's assumed to be a local unless explicitly declared as global. Though a bit surprising at first, a moment's consideration explains this. On one hand, requiring :keyword:`global` for assigned variables provides a bar @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ Library - Issue #13248: Remove deprecated inspect.getargspec and inspect.getmoduleinfo functions. +Documentation +------------- + +- Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan. + What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 4? ================================== |