[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

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[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Eric can you provide a doc patch for this? -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 2.6, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

Eric Promislow added the comment: David, that won't work for a reason I'll get into in a bit. I would drop the priority of this ... Komodo has a had a Python debugger since late 2000, we only fixed updating variables while debugging (using the variable viewer) yesterday, and received fewer than

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

R. David Murray added the comment: Well, you could discuss that possibility on python-dev, I suppose. As long as you don't need the changes to persist outside of the debugging loop, you can use InteractiveInterpreter as designed and keep passing it the same (modified) dict every time, as was

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

Eric Promislow added the comment: Thanks for the response. Note that our use case *is* to implement Python-console functionality, but sometimes we do this in the context of a currently running Python program, inside a function. That's why I wrote the repro that way. Using code.InteractiveInter

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

R. David Murray added the comment: locals() does not give you a copy of the locals dictionary that you can modify and expect the values to affect the actual locals they were copied from. This is documented: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#locals You would need to pass Interact

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

Eric Promislow added the comment: I've modified the bug status so anyone can read it. You don't need an account to read ActiveState bugs, only to add or comment on one. Please note that I closed bug http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=87405, as we're now writing to frame->f_localsplus

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

R. David Murray added the comment: Apparently I can't even see the activestate bug without creating an account there, so posting a link to it is not helpful. Please post more details about how you are calling InteractiveInterpreter and what the problem is that you are observing. -- n

[issue9274] code.InteractiveInterpreter fails to change locals when invoked in a function

New submission from Eric Promislow : Similar to bug http://bugs.python.org/issue5215 which found a workaround in pdb. Here I want to use code.InteractiveInterpreter to modify code interactively (see Komodo bug http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=87405 ) I can do this at the top-level, b