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Expand Up @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ generates its own :term:`error code`\ s for ``pyflakes``:
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| F823 | local variable ``name`` ... referenced before assignment |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| F824 | global variable ``name`` is unused: name is never assigned in scope |
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not specifically global, but also nonlocal. and it's not that the variable is unused it's specifically the classification of the name

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perhaps:

variable name marked as global/nonlocal but never assigned to

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just use the actual error message why are you trying to rewrite it

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the actual message I got is "global ... is unused: name is never assigned in scope"

which is basically what I wrote originally?

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but that's not the error message either -- and your "basically what I wrote" is an incorrect rewording and it missed that it can also be nonlocal

I'm trying to give you a chance but I'm just going to do this myself and save everyone the trouble since this has wasted enough of my time already trying to help you

+------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| F831 | duplicate argument ``name`` in function definition |
+------+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| F841 | local variable ``name`` is assigned to but never used |
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