[Python-Dev] interaction between locals, builtins and except clause

[Lisandro Dalcin]

Porting to Py3K, I modified a function like the followin, using a
trick for it working in Py2.x .

    def __iter__(self):
        if self == _mpi.INFO_NULL:
            return
        try:    range = xrange
        except: pass
        nkeys = _mpi.info_get_nkeys(self)
        for nthkey in range(nkeys):
            yield _mpi.info_get_nthkey(self, nthkey)

However, I've got in my unittests (running with py3k)

ERROR: testPyMethods (__main__.TestInfo)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tests/unittest/test_info.py", line 123, in testPyMethods
    for key in INFO:
  File "/u/dalcinl/lib/python/mpi4py/MPI.py", line 937, in __iter__
    for nthkey in range(nkeys):
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'range' referenced before assignment


I am not completelly sure if this is expected (it is, regarding
implementation, but perhaps not regarding Python as a language),  so
I post this for your consideration.


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