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| author | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-07-29 18:14:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-07-29 18:14:32 (GMT) |
| commit | f524799a652fc9086ad61537906d02702fb18280 (patch) | |
| tree | 602947c58db4bfb4921c42fe14f314482086107b | |
| parent | 15a92fde7d648441e79503e51ac1a0e4d9661938 (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 | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index 588066d..23891be 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -333,10 +333,8 @@ 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 @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ IDLE Documentation ------------- +- Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan. + - Issue #22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to Tkinter doc. Remove obsolete example from FAQ. Patch by Martin Panter. |