farces · March 7, 2013 12:20 · Mar 7, 2013
diff --git a/gistfile1.py b/gistfile1.py
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+mydict = {}
+mydict['penis'] = "boner"
+
+def thing_one():
+     for k,v in mydict.items():
+             print "%s %s" % (k,v)
+
+def thing_two():
+     for k,v in mydict.items():
+             print "%s %s" % (k,v)
+     mydict = {}
+
+
+>>> thing_one()
+penis boner
+>>> thing_two()
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
+  File "<stdin>", line 2, in thing_two
+UnboundLocalError: local variable 'mydict' referenced before assignment