Variable may be used before first being assigned to in Lib/locale.py

[vincele]

BPO	6620
Nosy	@mdickinson
Files	py3k-locale.py-use-before-assignment.patch: Patch to initialize the var _grouping_intervals.patch

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[vincele]

The last_interval variable could potentially be used before being first
assigned a value.

[mdickinson]

So this can happen only if grouping is [0] (or an equivalent iterable).
Since this is an invalid grouping, I think the appropriate response would
be for _grouping_intervals([0]) to raise an exception (which is what it
currently does as soon as you iterate over the result, though this is
possibly not by design. :)

Vincent, does the attached patch (_grouping_intervals.patch, against py3k)
silence the pylint warning?

[vincele]

Yes it does

[mdickinson]

Thanks. Committed in r74312 (trunk), r74313 (py3k).