What I mean is why would it need to shadow function variable name if after
except block it's always unbound, what is the reason and why this is
expected?

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM Oleksandr Suvorov <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

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> Oleksandr Suvorov <susliko@gmail.com> added the comment:
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> but if exc variable is only available in except block why then it shadows
> the function variable name?
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:15 PM Christian Heimes <report@bugs.python.org>
> wrote:
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> > Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> added the comment:
> >
> > UnboundLocalError is a subclass of NameError. You are getting a more
> > specific error here.
> >
> > >>> UnboundLocalError.__mro__
> > (<class 'UnboundLocalError'>, <class 'NameError'>, <class 'Exception'>,
> > <class 'BaseException'>, <class 'object'>)
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