I hit another case of "Python really makes me angry" today and I thought I would share it with you all, since I know how much you love reading about things that enrage me.
I have a chunk of code that (while being significantly more complex) looks like this:
def baz():
print kitties # This works fine.def bar():
print kitties # This one throws an exception!kitties = 'delicious' # The exception is because of this.
def foo():
stuff = {'kitties': 'squishy'}for k, v in stuff.iteritems():
globals()[k] = vbaz()
bar()
This is another example of Python's scoping being weird, and in my opinion, broken.
Let me explain, in case you didn't bother copy & pasting that into a python shell and running it.
baz() will execute properly. bar() will not. But the error you get from bar() is worthless - it tells you that you're trying to read from an unassigned local variable, except you're trying to read from a global variable. The problem I have is not that bar() fails - it's that it is inconsistent with baz() working. I realize that adding a global kitties makes bar() work properly; but I think that in this case, the error should really be when you try to reassign a global variable that hasn't been declared as global.
