Is access to locals() of "parent" namespace possible?

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I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting " an interactive
session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the
beginning. The way I make this possible is by having a "function"
that can be called during the interactive session using locals() as an
argument, as follows:

restart(locals( ))

It works. However, I would like to make this "friendlier ", i.e.
requiring the user to simply type

restart()

and have the code extract out the value of locals() of the "parent"
namespace. I thought it might be possible using sys._getframe, but I
have not been able to figure out why.

Any help would be appreciated.
André
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The code below defines the class I used. The interpreter is started
via

#--
exec user_code in symbols
#--

where user_code is

#--
interp = SingleConsole()
interp.interact ()
#--
# InteractiveCons ole is very similar to the class of the same name
# in module code.py of the standard library

class SingleConsole(I nteractiveConso le):
'''SingleConsol e are isolated one from another'''
def __init__(self, locals={}, filename="Isola ted console"):
self.locals = locals
self.locals['restart'] = self.restart
InteractiveCons ole.__init__(se lf, self.locals,
filename=filena me)

def restart(self, loc):
"""Call this function as follows: restart(locals( ))

Used to restart an interpreter session, removing all
variables
and functions introduced by the user, but leaving Crunchy
specific
ones in."""
to_delete = set()
# We can't iterate over a dict while changing its size; we do
it
# in two steps; first identify the objects to be deleted while
# iterating over the dict; then iterate over a set while
removing
# the objects in the dict.
for x in loc:
if x not in ['__builtins__', 'crunchy', 'restart']:
to_delete.add(x )
for x in to_delete:
del loc[x]
return

[Carsten Haese]

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 20:46 +0000, André wrote:

I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting " an interactive
session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the
beginning. The way I make this possible is by having a "function"
that can be called during the interactive session using locals() as an
argument, as follows:

restart(locals( ))

It works. However, I would like to make this "friendlier ", i.e.
requiring the user to simply type

restart()

and have the code extract out the value of locals() of the "parent"
namespace. I thought it might be possible using sys._getframe, but I
have not been able to figure out why.

inspect.current frame(1).f_loca ls

The same caveats for locals() apply here: Modifications to this
dictionary may or may not be visible to the caller.

HTH,

--
Carsten Haese
http://informixdb.sourceforge.net

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On Jul 27, 6:01 pm, Carsten Haese <cars...@uniqsy s.comwrote:

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 20:46 +0000, André wrote:

I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting " an interactive
session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the
beginning. The way I make this possible is by having a "function"
that can be called during the interactive session using locals() as an
argument, as follows:

restart(locals( ))

It works. However, I would like to make this "friendlier ", i.e.
requiring the user to simply type

restart()

and have the code extract out the value of locals() of the "parent"
namespace. I thought it might be possible using sys._getframe, but I
have not been able to figure out why.

inspect.current frame(1).f_loca ls

The same caveats for locals() apply here: Modifications to this
dictionary may or may not be visible to the caller.

HTH,

--
Carsten Haesehttp://informixdb.sour ceforge.net

Thanks, it worked!

André