New submission from Ian Miers <imichaelmi...@gmail.com>: when calling help() from the python interpreter on a function whose default argument is provided by another function ( e.g. def foo(bar=baz() ) : .... ), help will call baz().
This can cause problems because baz() can alter statefull data like a file or database entry. This is both a bug in that it does this and in that its undocumented To see this download the attached file and then : Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18) [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import bug >>> help(bug) at this point the file bug now has been written to disk. This is a problem I've got to think there is a reason for this, but seeing as I cant come up with it , better safe than sorry. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation, Interpreter Core files: bug.py messages: 88565 nosy: georg.brandl, imiers1 severity: normal status: open title: Help well execute code it is called on type: behavior versions: Python 2.5, Python 2.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14120/bug.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6148> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
