False positive `B023` with loop's local variable

[jamesbraza]

def some_fn(*_) -> None:
    ...


for _ in range(1):
    foo = 0
    some_fn(lambda: foo)

Since foo is a local variable in the loop, B023 shouldn't happen here (unless I am mistaken about something).

Running flake8==6.0.0 with flake8-bugbear==23.7.10 on this:

> flake8 a.py
a.py:7:21: B023 Function definition does not bind loop variable 'foo'.

I think this relates to https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8-bugbear/issues/269 or https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8-bugbear/issues/380.

[JelleZijlstra]

In your example it doesn't matter because foo is always assigned to the same value, but in general this isn't a false positive. For example, if you instead had foo = foo + 1, then every loop iteration would have a different value, and the lambda might close over the value and see an updated one.

[jamesbraza]

Thanks for the response, just trying to understand it more. The below code with foo = foo + 1 triggers B023 as well, though I believe it also doesn't have binding risk:

def some_fn(fn) -> None:
    print(fn())

foo = 0
for _ in range(10):
    foo = foo + 1  # foo is a local variable in the loop iteration
    some_fn(lambda: foo)

Would you mind clarifying your example? I am trying to understand the line between false positive and true positive here.

Also, if you think this issue should be closed out, feel free to close it

[tomasr8]

If the function invocation is delayed (for whatever reason) you'd get an unexpected behaviour. For example:

foo = 0
fns = []
for _ in range(10):
    foo = foo + 1
    fns.append(lambda: print(foo))

for fn in fns:
    fn()  # all print 10

I suppose it would be pretty hard to verify if the lambda is only invoked within the same iteration