Kind people,
Using Python 3.1 under FreeBSD and WinXP.
I've been tearing my hair out trying to solve this myself, but I need
to ask for help. I want (for obscure reasons) to be able to log
transactions in the namespace(s) of a script. Specifically I would
like to log creation of identifiers, changes in the binding of
identifiers ("assignment") and lookups. This turns out to be pretty
easy in the global and local namespaces... I simply subclass dict,
override the appropriate operations to include the logging operations
I want, and then exec the code using my dictionaries as the global and
local namespaces. All of this works just dandy until I try to
extend it to functions.
I cannot figure out any way to get a hook into the local namespace of
a user defined function. I have tried making a wrapper class that
grabs the function call and then uses exec to invoke
myfunction.__code__ with my own dictionaries. This runs the (no
argument) function properly (losing the return value, but I can deal
with that) but never accesses the local logging dictionary that I
specify in the exec() call. Perhaps the local namespace of a function
is not a dict at all?
Anyway, is there any way (however clumsy) to do what I want to do?
Thank you for your help.
Paul
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Paul LaFollette
CIS Department
Temple University
paul.lafollette(at)temple.edu
www.cis.temple.edu/~lafollet
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