From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 23:30:12 +0000 (-0800) Subject: gh-48496: Added example and link to faq for UnboundLocalError in reference (GH-93068) X-Git-Tag: v3.11.2~152 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1fa4c6bd1f895df1ca6205a8bd3f60fdd287405c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git gh-48496: Added example and link to faq for UnboundLocalError in reference (GH-93068) (cherry picked from commit f3db68e6e66ebb36e1b9cb30daba913ecc736169) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst index 584d33e9622e..c396e2b081fc 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst @@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ Yes. The coding style required for standard library modules is documented as Core Language ============= +.. _faq-unboundlocalerror: + Why am I getting an UnboundLocalError when the variable has a value? -------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst b/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst index 3f01180e13f7..a264015cbf40 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/executionmodel.rst @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ lead to errors when a name is used within a block before it is bound. This rule is subtle. Python lacks declarations and allows name binding operations to occur anywhere within a code block. The local variables of a code block can be determined by scanning the entire text of the block for name binding operations. +See :ref:`the FAQ entry on UnboundLocalError ` +for examples. If the :keyword:`global` statement occurs within a block, all uses of the names specified in the statement refer to the bindings of those names in the top-level