local variable not found

[Alain Tesio]

Hi,

I have a problem trying to use code compiled on the fly,
python looks in the globals variables only.

Look at this example :

===
import codeop

def f():
	x=[1,2,3]
	eval(codeop.compile_command("y=x"))
	print y

f()
==

It cannot find the variable y (I don't know its name at runtime):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/testlocal.py", line 8, in ?
    f()
  File "/tmp/testlocal.py", line 6, in f
    print y
NameError: global name 'y' is not defined


But it works if I use print locals()["y"]

Is this an expected behaviour ? Why ??

Thanks
Alain