bpo-39431: Also mention nonlocal in assignment quirk (GH-17375)

miss-islington · shanavas786 · web-flow · commit 0c12d70bfded · 2020-01-23T10:15:15.000-08:00
(cherry picked from commit 7142df5) Co-authored-by: Shanavas M <shanavas.m2@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -143,10 +143,10 @@ language definition is evolving towards static name resolution, at "compile"
 time, so don't rely on dynamic name resolution!  (In fact, local variables are
 already determined statically.)
 
-A special quirk of Python is that -- if no :keyword:`global` statement is in
-effect -- assignments to names always go into the innermost scope.  Assignments
-do not copy data --- they just bind names to objects.  The same is true for
-deletions: the statement ``del x`` removes the binding of ``x`` from the
+A special quirk of Python is that -- if no :keyword:`global` or :keyword:`nonlocal`
+statement is in effect -- assignments to names always go into the innermost scope.
+Assignments do not copy data --- they just bind names to objects.  The same is true
+for deletions: the statement ``del x`` removes the binding of ``x`` from the
 namespace referenced by the local scope.  In fact, all operations that introduce
 new names use the local scope: in particular, :keyword:`import` statements and
 function definitions bind the module or function name in the local scope.
