Roger Serwy <roger.se...@gmail.com> added the comment: Mark, I ran your example against 2.7.1 and did not receive a traceback. I then ran it against the latest 2.7.3+ and receive a traceback in IDLE. Here's the entire Shell contents:
Python 2.7.3+ (2.7:97445ca895d5, Jul 8 2012, 19:58:43) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> from thread import start_new >>> def f(): typo >>> start_new(f, ()) 139804918241024Unhandled exception in thread started by <function f at 0x1e36050> >>> Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#2>", line 1, in f NameError: global name 'typo' is not defined >>> ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15262> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
