Why I need to declare import as global in function

[didier.doussaud]

I have a stange side effect in my project :

in my project I need to write "gobal" to use global symbol :

....
import math
....
def f() :
global math # necessary ?????? else next line generate an error
message ?????
print math.pi

(the problem is for all global module symbol)

I have certainly change somthing in my project, but I can't find what ?

(just a small program wort fine without this global of course)

Can anybody help me : where can I search the mistake in my project ?

[Tim N. van der Leeuw]

Sounds like something, either in your program, in another lib you
imported, or perhaps some extension you recently installed (and which
automatically starts), overrides 'import' (replaces it with it's own
version) -- and forgets to add the imported modules properly to the
globlals?
Or something, some option, that perhaps changes the way that Python
recognizes globals?

If you declare another global variable, then try to use it in your
function, then what's the result?

What Python version do you use?

cheers,

--Tim

[Fredrik Lundh]

di************* @gmail.com wrote:

I have a stange side effect in my project :

in my project I need to write "gobal" to use global symbol :

...
import math
...
def f() :
global math # necessary ?????? else next line generate an error
message ?????
what error message?
print math.pi

you only need global in this case if you assign to the name somewhere
later in the function (e.g. "math = ..." or "import math" or some other
assignment)

please post the error message (the entire traceback).

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[didier.doussaud]

the error message :

EXCEPTION RAISED::

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../tu.py", line 21, in run_tu
execfile( filename )
File "TU_05_010. py", line 8, in ?
import TU_05_tools
File "./TU_05_tools.py" , line 4, in ?
f()
File "./TU_05_tools.py" , line 2, in f
print math.pi
NameError: global name 'math' is not defined

I have remarq that this problem is raised when I execute code in an
imported module (during importation)

I think I will be able to isolate it and have a simple sample soon ....

[Duncan Booth]

wrote:

I have remarq that this problem is raised when I execute code in an
imported module (during importation)

I think I will be able to isolate it and have a simple sample soon ....

Meanwhile, try adding:

import math

to the top of TU_05_tools.py.

[Peter Otten]

di************* @gmail.com wrote:

the error message :

EXCEPTION RAISED::

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../tu.py", line 21, in run_tu
execfile( filename )
File "TU_05_010. py", line 8, in ?
import TU_05_tools
File "./TU_05_tools.py" , line 4, in ?
f()
File "./TU_05_tools.py" , line 2, in f
print math.pi
NameError: global name 'math' is not defined

I have remarq that this problem is raised when I execute code in an
imported module (during importation)

I think I will be able to isolate it and have a simple sample soon ....

Random guess: change the execfile() call to

execfile(filena me, globals())

or

exec file(filename). read()

If one of the above works, a minimal example of what happens could be

file("tmp.py", "w").write( """
import math
""")

def f():
execfile("tmp.p y")
print locals()["math"].pi # 3.14159265359
print math.pi # Error, math looked up in the global
namespace

f()

execfile() puts symbols into the local namespace but keeps the compiler
clueless because it's just an ordinary function, whereas exec triggers the
generation of slightly different bytecode for the enclosing function.

Peter

[Duncan Booth]

Peter Otten wrote:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../tu.py", line 21, in run_tu
execfile( filename )
File "TU_05_010. py", line 8, in ?
import TU_05_tools
File "./TU_05_tools.py" , line 4, in ?
f()
File "./TU_05_tools.py" , line 2, in f
print math.pi
NameError: global name 'math' is not defined

I have remarq that this problem is raised when I execute code in an
imported module (during importation)

I think I will be able to isolate it and have a simple sample soon ....

Random guess: change the execfile() call to

execfile(filena me, globals())

or

exec file(filename). read()

That is unlikely to help. The execfile target seems to have been
TU_05_010.py, but the file which cannot access math is TU_05_tools.py
accessed by a normal import, so adding some globals to the execfile call
won't really do anything useful.

Isn't it fun trying to guess the problem in the absence of the code?

[Peter Otten]

Duncan Booth wrote:

Isn't it fun trying to guess the problem in the absence of the code?

What other reason could there be to forego the sane approach -- stick
'import math' everywhere it might belong?
Those exec/execfile() peculiarities are so much more interesting ;-)

Peter

[Fredrik Lundh]

Duncan Booth wrote:

That is unlikely to help. The execfile target seems to have been
TU_05_010.py, but the file which cannot access math is TU_05_tools.py
accessed by a normal import, so adding some globals to the execfile call
won't really do anything useful.

Isn't it fun trying to guess the problem in the absence of the code?

given that the NameError occurs on line 2 of the file, inside a function, this
is probably just a misunderstandin g of how namespaces work in Python...

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[didier.doussaud]

You're right, the problem is around the usage of "execfile".

But I have still difficulties to get a simple sample.... and have no
enough time to work on it until end of week.

I will post if I resolve my problem or if I can get a simple sample.