Python globals, locals, and UnboundLocalError

Question

I ran across this case of UnboundLocalError recently, which seems strange:

import pprint

def main():
    if \'pprint\' in globals(): print \'pp         


        

Answer 1

Where's the surprise? Any variable global to a scope that you reassign within that scope is marked local to that scope by the compiler.

If imports would be handled differently, that would be surprising imho.

It may make a case for not naming modules after symbols used therein, or vice versa, though.