Hi

Example "eg def2" works but "eg def4" gives an error?

David

```
emp = [
    {
        "empno": 7839,
        "mgr": 0,
        "ename": "KING"
    },
    {
        "empno": 7566,
        "mgr": 7839,
        "ename": "JONES"
    },
    {
        "empno": 7698,
        "mgr": 7839,
        "ename": "BLAKE"
    }
]

a = [e for e in emp if e["mgr"] == 0]
print('eg 1', [b for b in a])
print('eg 2', eval('[b for b in a]'))
print('eg 3', [e for e in emp for b in a if e["mgr"] == b["empno"]])
print('eg 4', eval('[e for e in emp for b in a if e["mgr"] == b["empno"]]'))


def eval_anomaly():
    a_anomaly = [e for e in emp if e["mgr"] == 0]
    print('eg def1', [b for b in a_anomaly])
    print('eg def2', eval('[b for b in a_anomaly]'))
    print('eg def3', [e for e in emp for b in a_anomaly if e["mgr"] == b["empno"]])
    print('eg def4', eval('[e for e in emp for b in a_anomaly if e["mgr"] == b["empno"]]'))

eval_anomaly()
```

Thanks for the report. The behaviour is by design: see #5242 (especially msg81898) for an explanation.

Closing this issue as a duplicate of #5242.

See also #41216

Hi Mark,

Thanks.  

The anomaly is that the print("eg def2", ...)  works.  Should it not fail in the same way that print("eg def4", ...) does.

David

On 22/11/2021 7:36:31 PM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

Mark Dickinson added the comment:

Thanks for the report. The behaviour is by design: see #5242 (especially msg81898) for an explanation.

Closing this issue as a duplicate of #5242.

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nosy: +mark.dickinson
resolution: -> duplicate
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder: -> eval() function in List Comprehension doesn't work

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True: there's another detail here that's needed to explain the behaviour. The first "for" clause in a list comprehension is special: it's evaluated in the enclosing scope, rather than in the local function scope that the list comprehension creates. See the docs here: https://docs.python.org/3.9/reference/expressions.html?highlight=list%20comprehension#displays-for-lists-sets-and-dictionaries