Re: [Tutor] Local Unbound Mystery

[Wayne Watson]

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Kent Johnson wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Wayne Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not think I've made an inaccurate observation. Is it possible the IDLE shell is leaving something behind that I can't see? Maybe I had two shell window up at the same time between the real and debug program. I'm not too familiar with IDLE but the version I have does have this behaviour- if I run a program that defines global variables, then the globals are available in the shell until I run another program. So if you are switching between running a program and experimenting in the shell, that may cause you some confusion. I don't think IDLE preserves variables between runs of a program. When the shell prints out the "RESTART" line, it is clearing the old variables. I haven't seen that yet, but I should finish the complete program I was debugging today. After that, I'll look around. Someone suggested, <http://ipython.scipy.org/>. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a Consumer Reports of such programs, complete with consumer (star) ratings, "best buy" choice [:-)] and rated categories (cars: braking, gas mileage, repair record, ..."). Maybe your link below offers some of that.   Whether that is the problem or not, I recommend you find a different editor or IDE to use; IMO IDLE is quite primitive and there are many better choices. Check the list archives or the Python wiki for many suggestions. http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors Kent -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, ANYONE can start from now and make a brand new end." -- Anonymous Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>

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