[Python-3000] interaction between locals, builtins and except clause

Thu Jul 26 19:06:47 CEST 2007

Porting to Py3K, I modified a function like the followin, using a
trick for it working in Py2.x .
 def __iter__(self):
 if self == _mpi.INFO_NULL:
 return
 try: range = xrange
 except: pass
 nkeys = _mpi.info_get_nkeys(self)
 for nthkey in range(nkeys):
 yield _mpi.info_get_nthkey(self, nthkey)
However, I've got in my unittests (running with py3k)
ERROR: testPyMethods (__main__.TestInfo)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "tests/unittest/test_info.py", line 123, in testPyMethods
 for key in INFO:
 File "/u/dalcinl/lib/python/mpi4py/MPI.py", line 937, in __iter__
 for nthkey in range(nkeys):
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'range' referenced before assignment
I am not completelly sure if this is expected (it is, regarding
implementation, but perhaps not regarding Python as a language), so
I post this for your consideration.
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Lisandro Dalcín
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