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Scope the Scope 2 is a easy quant interview question on language knowledge in Python.
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This is an easy Python fundamentals question that tests your grasp of scope resolution and variable binding. It's common in screening interviews because scope bugs are frequent in real code, and the question quickly reveals whether a candidate understands Python's name-lookup rules.
To answer correctly, you need to trace through how Python resolves names in different scopes—local, enclosing, global, and built-in (the LEGB rule). Pay special attention to when a variable is first assigned within a function, as this affects whether references to that name resolve to an outer scope or the local one. The question rewards careful reading of the actual code flow rather than assumptions about how it "should" behave.