From 4b4567347310031b2e28f26e7d8b4430722de2f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:56:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #6620: Slightly safer code for _grouping_intervals in
 the locale module.  Fixes a 'possible use before assignment' warning from
 pylint. Thanks Vincent Legoll.

---
 Lib/locale.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 879725feb94..f0733999d2c 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -114,12 +114,15 @@ def localeconv():
 
 # Iterate over grouping intervals
 def _grouping_intervals(grouping):
+    last_interval = None
     for interval in grouping:
         # if grouping is -1, we are done
         if interval == CHAR_MAX:
             return
         # 0: re-use last group ad infinitum
         if interval == 0:
+            if last_interval is None:
+                raise ValueError("invalid grouping")
             while True:
                 yield last_interval
         yield interval