[IPython-user] conflict between IPython and profile

[Fernando Perez]

Yaroslav Bulatov wrote:
> When I run the following code, I get "NameError: name 'a' is not
> defined" in "C:\Python23\lib\profile.py", but if I comment out the
> "ipshell = ..." line, the error doesn't happen, why?
> 
> from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed
> ipshell = IPShellEmbed()
> 
> import profile;
> def a(): pass;
> profile.run('a()')

I'm very sorry to have dropped the ball for so long on this, only now am I 
beginning to make progress on my gigantic ipython backlog.

This was indeed a bug, I've just committed the fixes to SVN.  Many thanks for 
the report.

Regards,

f