pylint does not recognize potential undefined variables

[pylint-bot]

Originally reported by: Mirko Dziadzka (BitBucket: mirkodziadzka, GitHub: @mirkodziadzka?)

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The following code should generate a warning, that the variable res may be undefined in the finally clause

#!python
try:
    # throw exception here to make res undefined
    res = 42
finally:
    print res

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/logilab/pylint/issue/85

[pylint-bot]

_Original comment by_ Sylvain Thénault (BitBucket: sthenault, GitHub: @sthenault?):

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see also issue #12

[dpinol]

this has been open 6 years. Is it on the roadmap?

thanks