On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:34:19 +0100, Stef Mientki wrote: > hello, > > Never seen this before and I've no explanation whatsoever (Python 2.6) > > I've some dynamic generated code, > one of objects generated is a wx.Button, called 'btn_Matlab'.
How do you generate the code? What code is generated? What does it do? > After the code is generated, I can see that the button is created in the > local namespace > > print locals()['btn_Matlab'] > > <wx._controls.Button; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'wxButton *' at > 0x3602d28> > > > but if I try to print the button (at exactly the same location), I get > an error > > print btn_Matlab > > NameError: global name 'btn_Matlab' is not defined ? > > Why isn't the compiler first checking the local namespace ? any clues ? My guess is that you've declared btn_Matlab as global, and then dynamically created a local with the same name using exec or similar. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list