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Author pablogsal
Recipients Mark.Shannon, oleksandr.suvorov, pablogsal
Date 2020-05-22.11:21:09
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> but if exc variable is only available in except block why then it shadows
the function variable name?

Because the except block does not create a new scope and therefore when you do 'except as x' it does an assignment to x in the same scope as the function.
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