[IPython-user] Problem with IPShellEmbed

[Michael Foord]

Fernando Perez wrote:

> Michael Foord wrote:
>
>> I've encountered a problem with IPShellEmbed, for my Movable Python 
>> project. It's quite likely that this problem is my fault - but I 
>> would still appreciate help ! It looks like a frame object is 
>> expected and None is returned.
>>
>> Basically *sometimes* a call to IPShellEmbed will fail :
>>
>> ipshell = IPShellEmbed(argv, banner=banner)
>>
>> The error raised occurs in :
>>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\IPython\Itpl.py", line 182, in 
>> __str__
>>     while frame.f_globals["__name__"] == __name__: frame = frame.f_back
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'f_globals'
>
>
> Very, very strange.  It seems like you have a stack with a bogus frame 
> somewhere.  Here's something to try: in the Itpl.py file, around line 
> 182, comment out 3 lines and add a _getframe as follows:

Ha -and another thing, it only seems to happen with python 2.4..
I've attempted to reproduce the problem at work on a machine with Python 
2.3. I don't see the same problem.... I can *definitely* only confirm 
this later - when I get a chance to test again under Python 2.4.

Regards,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml


>
>     def __str__(self):
>         """Evaluate and substitute the appropriate parts of the 
> string."""
>
> ##        try: 1/0
> ##        except: frame = sys.exc_traceback.tb_frame
>
> ##        while frame.f_globals["__name__"] == __name__: frame = 
> frame.f_back
>
>         frame = sys._getframe(1)   ##### <<<--- NEW LINE HERE
>
>         loc, glob = frame.f_locals, frame.f_globals
>
> This should pull the caller's frame correctly.  Itpl was originally 
> written before sys._getframe existed, so it used the 1/0 trick.  If 
> this fixes your problem, I'll add it for the next release.
>
> Let me know what happens.
>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>
>
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