Bugs item #1748015, was opened at 2007-07-04 19:53
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nefarious CodeMonkey, Jr. (nejucomo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Module-level stack scopes have incorrect bindings.

Initial Comment:
For a variable defined in a module scope, and stack frame object's locals and 
globals scope dictionaries each contain that variables name mapped to None.

This confuses python code which inspects the bindings, such as pdb.  Such code 
incorrectly reports the value as None.

It may be that the binding values are correct at the time of exception 
generation, but altered by the time the exception traceback is caught.  This 
problem may also be related to module imports.

Here's are two simple examples, the first does not trigger this problem, the 
second does.

Both use this module called "buggy.py":
# Begin buggy.py
whatKnightsSay = 'Ni!'
print 'We are the Knights who say: %r' % (whatKnightsSay,)
42 + whatKnightsSay
# End buggy.py

# Begin a non-failing example:
$ pdb buggy.py
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/buggy.py(1)<module>()
-> whatKnightsSay = 'Ni!'
(Pdb) print whatKnightsSay
*** NameError: name 'whatKnightsSay' is not defined
(Pdb) next
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/buggy.py(2)<module>()
-> print 'We are the Knights who say: %r' % (whatKnightsSay,)
(Pdb) print whatKnightsSay
Ni!
(Pdb) next
We are the Knights who say: 'Ni!'
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/buggy.py(3)<module>()
-> 42 + whatKnightsSay
(Pdb) print whatKnightsSay
Ni!
(Pdb) next
TypeError: "unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'"
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/buggy.py(3)<module>()
-> 42 + whatKnightsSay
(Pdb) print whatKnightsSay
Ni!
(Pdb) next
--Return--
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/buggy.py(3)<module>()->None
-> 42 + whatKnightsSay
(Pdb) print whatKnightsSay
Ni!
(Pdb) next
TypeError: "unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'"
> <string>(1)<module>()->None
(Pdb) print whatKnightsSay
Ni!
# End succeeding example.


And here's a simple failing example, which relies on a second module:
# Begin triggerPdb.py
import pdb
pdb.set_trace()
import buggy
# End triggerPdb.py

Now pdb get's confused about the module level binding:
# Begin failure example:
$ python triggerPdb.py
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/triggerPdb.py(3)<module>()
-> import buggy
(Pdb) next
We are the Knights who say: 'Ni!'
TypeError: "unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'"
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug-src/triggerPdb.py(3)<module>()
-> import buggy
(Pdb) down
> /home/n/sandbox/python-module-binding-bug/buggy.py(3)<module>()
-> 42 + whatKnightsSay
(Pdb) list
  1     whatKnightsSay = 'Ni!'
  2     print 'We are the Knights who say: %r' % (whatKnightsSay,)
  3  -> 42 + whatKnightsSay
[EOF]
(Pdb) p whatKnightsSay
None
 
# End failing example.


I've included these two simple sources, as well as another that does traceback 
inspection in an except clause (which fails like the second example here).






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