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List comprehensions are leaking variables #47201

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donmez mannequin opened this issue May 23, 2008 · 4 comments
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List comprehensions are leaking variables #47201

donmez mannequin opened this issue May 23, 2008 · 4 comments
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interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error

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donmez mannequin commented May 23, 2008

BPO 2952
Nosy @loewis

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closed_at = <Date 2008-05-23.19:21:32.018>
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labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-bug']
title = 'List comprehensions are leaking variables'
updated_at = <Date 2008-05-23.19:33:47.290>
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donmez mannequin commented May 23, 2008

Originally found at http://www.randombit.net/weblog/programming/variable_leak_in_list_compre
hensions.html

First example :

[~]> python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x=1
>>> [x for x in [1,2,3]]
[1, 2, 3]
>>> x
3

whoops x changed.

Another example from original post:

$ python
Python 2.4.4 (#1, Mar  7 2008, 14:54:19)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> x = { 1:2, 3:4 }
>>> nothere
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'nothere' is not defined
>>> [nothere for nothere in x.keys()]
[1, 3]
>>> nothere
3

This bug doesn't seem to affect py3k but it does python 2.4/2.5. Either
this should be fixed or documented as a caveat.

@donmez donmez mannequin added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir interpreter-core (Objects, Python, Grammar, and Parser dirs) type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error and removed stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir labels May 23, 2008
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loewis mannequin commented May 23, 2008

The behaviour is documented, e.g. in footnote 5.1 of

http://docs.python.org/ref/lists.html

It is fixed in Python 3.

@loewis loewis mannequin closed this as completed May 23, 2008
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donmez mannequin commented May 23, 2008

But it only mentions python 2.3, time to update the footnote.

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loewis mannequin commented May 23, 2008

This is now fixed in r63569

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