Andrew Durdin adurdin at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 00:58:44 EDT 2004

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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 04:51:28 GMT, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
> why is class apparently not legal as a simple statement terminated by ';' ?
> (I wanted to attempt an alternate one-liner ;-)
> 
>  >>> class Record:pass; rec=Record()
>  ...
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in Record
>  NameError: name 'Record' is not defined

This is the equivalent of:

class Record:
    pass
    rec = Record()

That is, the whole line after the : is interpreted as the body of the
class. The name Record is not defined within its body, hence the
NameError.

Another [sort-of related] question: why does the following not produce
a NameError for "foo"?

def foo(): print foo
foo()

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