compiler package vs parser

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.4042.1239964684.11746.python-list at python.org>,
Robin Becker  <robin at reportlab.com> wrote:
>
>My analysis of the problem is that in
>
>#### start p.py
>def func(D):
>     for k in D:
>         exec '%s=D[%r]' % (k,k)
>     print i, j, k
>     print locals()
>     print i, j, k
>
>if __name__=='__main__':
>     func(dict(i=1,j=33))
>#### end p.py
>
>the compiler package ends up treating i & j as global, whereas the
>modern analysis doesn't (and doesn't say they're definitely local
>either). Looking at the code in Python/compile.c the compile_nameop
>code seems to check for scopes FREE, CELL, LOCAL, GLOBAL_IMPLICIT &
>GLOBAL_EXPLICIT whereas pycodegen.CodeGenerator._nameOp seems not to
>know about GLOBAL_IMPLICIT/EXPLICIT but has only a single GLOBAL scope.

At this point, given the lack of response from people who actually know
the compiler internals, I think it's fair of you to try going to
python-dev -- normally questions like this are off-topic, and if someone
complains, I'll take the blame.  ;-)
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