Re: Syntax error in ".py" file and globals variable values notavailable.

[Timothy Grant]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Alexis Boutillier
<alexis.boutill ier@arteris.com wrote:

Hi,
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I have a strange behaviour of python with pdb and import statement.
Here is the example code :
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file my1.py:
import my2
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file my2.py:
a=5
toto
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I intentionnaly put a syntax error in file my2.py.
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If I run "python -i my2.py" and run pdb I got :
NameError: name 'toto' is not defined

>>>import pdb
>>>pdb.pm()

-toto

>>>print a

5
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If I run "python -i my1.py" and run pdb I got :
NameError: name 'toto' is not defined

>>>import pdb
>>>pdb.pm()

-toto

>>>print a

None
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Why can't I get access to variable a in pdb when the process generating the
error came from an import statement ?
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With python 2.3.5, it works fine and in the two cases I get the correct
value of 5 for variable "a".
with python 2.43,2.5.1,2.5. 2, it doesn't work and I get "None" value for
variable a.
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Somebody can explain me this behaviour ?
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>
Thanks.
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Because of the syntax error the module wasn't loaded.

What kind of behaviour would you expect on code that has been flagged
as not executable?

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tjg. [Timothy Grant]