On 26/05/2010 13:51, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 26/05/10 19:48, Mark Dickinson wrote:
This is a long way from my area of expertise (I'm commenting here
because it was me who sent Colin here in the first place), and it's
not clear to me whether this is a bug, and if it is a bug, how it
could be resolved. What would the impact be of having the compiler
produce 'LOAD_NAME' rather than 'LOAD_GLOBAL' here?
exec with a single argument = module namespace
exec with two arguments = class namespace
Class namespaces are deliberately exempted from lexical scoping so
that methods can't see class attributes, hence the example in the
tracker issue works exactly as it would if the code was written as a
class body.
class C:
y = 3
def execfunc():
print y
execfunc()
With this code, y would end up in C.__dict__ rather than the module
globals (at least, it would if it wasn't for the exception) and the
call to execfunc fails with a NameError when attempting to find y.
I know I've closed other bug reports that were based on the same
misunderstanding, and I didn't understand it myself until Guido
explained it to me a few years back, so suggestions for improving the
exec documentation in this area would be appreciated.
Your explanation here is very clear. Is this in the documentation?
Michael
Cheers,
Nick.
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