New submission from anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com>: main.py below fails to execute local.py, which work ok (outputs '2') when processed directly in console.
Docs are not explaining anything. They spread fear and uncertainty around locals, but nothing is said why globals may fail. http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#execfile ---[cut main.py]--- values = {} glavues = {} execfile('local.py', glavues, values) ---[/cut]----------- ---[cut local.py]--- x = 1 def weird(): y = x + 1 return y print weird() ---[/cut]----------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "main.py", line 5, in <module> execfile('local.py', glavues, values) File "local.py", line 7, in <module> print weird() File "local.py", line 5, in weird y = x + 1 NameError: global name 'x' is not defined ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation, Library (Lib) messages: 153643 nosy: docs@python, techtonik priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: execfile() fails on files that use global variables inside functions versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14049> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
