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Sorry, this isn't a bug.

Per the language reference, the global statement is not
executed like other python statements.  Instead, it is a
parser directive.  Hence, it doesn't matter whether the
globals are wrapped inside if blocks.  

The presence of the first occurrence of cPickle is
sufficient to define so that the subsequently parsed (not
executed) global directive cannot work.