[issue20381] Argument Clinic: expression default arguments broken

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings added the comment:

Remove the winreg.

On Jan 24, 2014 8:02 AM, Zachary Ware <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> New submission from Zachary Ware: 
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> The fix for #20189 broke simple expression defaults.  Specifically, with the latest #20172 patch applied, Clinic fails on winreg.c at winreg line 1351 with this traceback: 
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> Error in file "PC\winreg.c" on line 1351: 
> Exception raised during parsing: 
> Traceback (most recent call last): 
>   File "Tools\clinic\clinic.py", line 1541, in parse 
>     parser.parse(block) 
>   File "Tools\clinic\clinic.py", line 2942, in parse 
>     self.state(line) 
>   File "Tools\clinic\clinic.py", line 3482, in state_parameter_docstring 
>     return self.next(self.state_parameter, line) 
>   File "Tools\clinic\clinic.py", line 2975, in next 
>     self.state(line) 
>   File "Tools\clinic\clinic.py", line 3321, in state_parameter 
>     bad = default != repr(eval(default)) 
>   File "<string>", line 1, in <module> 
> NameError: name 'winreg' is not defined 
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> In this case, 'default' is 'winreg.KEY_WRITE'.  The 'default != repr(eval(default))' check cannot succeed with such a default even if winreg were defined, as it will return an int, 131078. 
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> assignee: larry 
> components: Demos and Tools 
> messages: 209094 
> nosy: larry, zach.ware 
> priority: normal 
> severity: normal 
> stage: needs patch 
> status: open 
> title: Argument Clinic: expression default arguments broken 
> type: behavior 
> versions: Python 3.4 
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