codeText = """
class foo(object): pass
class bar(object):
baz = foo()
"""
def doExec(text):
exec text
### This works:
# Although if I do this before the doExec below, then the
# doExec doesn't fail.
# exec codeText
### But this does not:
doExec(codeText)
The output I get is:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<type 'exceptions.NameError'> Traceback (most recent call last)
/home/kfitch/<ipython console> in <module>()
/home/kfitch/<ipython console> in doExec(text)
/home/kfitch/<string> in <module>()
/home/kfitch/<string> in bar()
<type 'exceptions.NameError'>: name 'foo' is not defined
I don't fully understand why the version in the function doesn't work,
but I suspect it is a bug related to scoping, since foo is really
doExec.foo (I think).
This is with python 2.5.2 under Linux (Ubuntu 8.04)