On Jan 14, 8:17 pm, Ivan Illarionov <ivan.illario...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 14, 8:00 pm, Ben Sizer <kylo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I will try it when I get home. However I would like to be able to > > treat them as separate dictionaries, as I want to be able to import > > some symbols and modules at a global level, but be able to clear out > > objects introduced at the local level on a periodic basis, so that I > > can have some degree of isolation between distinct 'scripts'. The docs > > aren't terribly clear about what the globals and locals parameters to > > PyRun_String actually do, though. > > > I also wonder if this is something specific to the sys module, since > > it's already been shown that there are some specific C API functions > > for it. I will try with other modules and see if they exhibit the same > > symptoms. > > After quick testing it looks like '__builtins__' must be in locals > dictionary for your embed Python code to work, it may be a separate > dictionary from globals though. > > From what I know 'sys' module is related to builtins. My knowledge of > Python internals is not so deep to explain the details of this > relationship and answer your question about sys.path[0] though.
Sorry, I probably was terribly wrong in my last post, it doesn't work this way with separate dictionaries. I never had to use separate dictionaries. Maybe someone with better knowledge of Python internals may help? -- Ivan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
