[New-bugs-announce] [issue19268] Local variable created with reflection cannot be referenced with identifier

[Ivan Pozdeev]

New submission from Ivan Pozdeev:

It appears that the interpreter assigns an identifier to local or global scope at compilation time rather than searching locals, then globals (i.e. vars()) at the time of execution.

An example:

>>> def test():
...   vars()['a']=1
...   print(a)
...
>>> test()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 3, in test
NameError: global name 'a' is not defined
>>>

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 200004
nosy: native_api
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Local variable created with reflection cannot be referenced with identifier
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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