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list comprehensions don't see local variables in pdb in python3 #65360
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| BPO | 21161 |
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| Nosy | @birkenfeld, @blueyed, @bitdancer, @florentx, @xdegaye |
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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2014-04-05.19:33:03.596>
created_at = <Date 2014-04-05.11:55:43.293>
labels = ['interpreter-core', '3.8', 'type-bug', '3.7', '3.9']
title = "list comprehensions don't see local variables in pdb in python3"
updated_at = <Date 2019-12-05.21:44:31.558>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/kay'bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2019-12-05.21:44:31.558>
actor = 'inducer'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2014-04-05.19:33:03.596>
closer = 'georg.brandl'
components = ['Interpreter Core']
creation = <Date 2014-04-05.11:55:43.293>
creator = 'kay'
dependencies = []
files = ['34791', '35305']
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issue_num = 21161
keywords = ['patch']
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nosy_names = ['georg.brandl', 'blueyed', 'inducer', 'r.david.murray', 'flox', 'xdegaye', 'Jurko.Gospodneti\xc4\x87', 'kay']
pr_nums = ['15194']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'wont fix'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue21161'
versions = ['Python 3.1', 'Python 3.2', 'Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7', 'Python 3.8', 'Python 3.9']
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kay commentedon Apr 5, 2014
Using generators in pdb are very handy but since Python3 they don't work properly. For example:
in pdb prompt the following fails:
(pdf) all(x < limit for x in items)
*** NameError: global name 'items' is not defined
I can express that in a lambda expression (i.e. pass items as an argument) but this seems unnecessary and very inelegant.
birkenfeld commentedon Apr 5, 2014
Your failure appears to be not pasted from an interpreter session; the actual failure is:
(Pdb) all(x < limit for x in items)
*** NameError: global name 'limit' is not defined
(i.e. "limit" is not found, not "items"). This actually does not work in Python 2 either. What did work in Python 2 and doesn't work in 3, is using a list comprehension like
This is because list comprehensions are now implemented with their own function object like generator expressions have always been. To make the code in pdb compile "as if" it was put in the debugged function will be as good as impossible, so I'm closing this as won't fix.
JurkoGospodneti commentedon Apr 10, 2014
Just ran into this problem and it's sooooo uncomfortable
researching dynamic structures at run-time using PDB
without this. :-(
As a workaround, you can use a trick similar to this one
to 'import' your locals into the list comprehension body:
[l'r' for l in (locals(),) for x in l['some_local']]
assuming 'r' & 'some_local' are two local variables in
your surrounding scope.
Ugly, but at least it can be made/forced to work if needed...
Best regards,
Jurko Gospodnetić
xdegaye commentedon Apr 12, 2014
FWIW this generator expression can be evaluated with the 'interact' command:
xdegaye commentedon Apr 12, 2014
The runcode() method of InteractiveInterpreter in code.py uses the 'self.locals' dictionary as the 'globals' parameter of the invoked exec() function. And the do_interact() method of Pdb instantiates InteractiveInterpreter with 'locals' as a merge of the current frame's locals and globals dictionary. This explains why the interact command of pdb evaluates sucessfully the generator expression: the generator function object is evaluated by the interpreter in a frame where 'locals' is NULL (see fast_function() in ceval.c) and 'globals' includes now the debugged frame locals dictionary.
So a fix for this problem is to have the default() method of pdb be implemented in the same manner as do_interact() and the runcode() method of InteractiveInterpreter. The attached patch does this.
JurkoGospodneti commentedon Apr 12, 2014
Thanks for looking into this Xavier.
Could someone reopen this issue so it can gets looked at again?
xdegaye commentedon Apr 13, 2014
The NameError exception occuring on a generator expression referencing a local variable when the generator is called within exec() is the object of multiple entries in the bug tracker, see bpo-13557.
msg 149096 in this issue suggests using exec(code, locals()) to fix the problem. It seems that what does currently the do_interact() method, and what is proposed in the patch is the recommended practice to handle this problem.
xdegaye commentedon Apr 14, 2014
Interestingly, the interact command was added at changeset:
And the included documentation, added at that time, states (emphasis added by me):
Start an interative interpreter (using the code module) whose global namespace contains all the ***(global and local)*** names found in the current scope.
I can provide a test case for the patch when this issue is re-opened, unless someone else is willing to do it.
xdegaye commentedon May 20, 2014
The patch fails to invoke exec() with the locals argument set to the current frame locals.
The attached patch fixes this, and test_pdb runs now fine with it.
blueyed commentedon Aug 1, 2019
Georg, please consider re-opening.
This patch here appears to fix this after all.
hstojic commentedon Jan 11, 2023
will this be fixed at any point? its really a nuisance when debugging
gvanrossum commentedon Jan 12, 2023
This came up in https://discuss.python.org/t/inlining-comprehensions-what-are-the-compatibility-constraints/22527/25
Reopening.
carljm commentedon Mar 9, 2023
#101441 (PEP 709) will fix this for list, dict, and set comprehensions, but not for generator expressions.
gaogaotiantian commentedon May 6, 2024
Fixed by #111094