#1266 Python 3.x: `NameError: Unknown C global variable'

[Casper Ti. Vector]

How to reproduce

With the following files, run:
$ swig -python test.i # You may add `-py3' and still get the same error.
$ gcc -c -fPIC test.c test_wrap.c -I/usr/include/python3.2
$ gcc -shared test.o test_wrap.o -o _test.so
$ python3 -c 'import test; help(test)'
You may get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/site.py", line 458, in __call__
return pydoc.help(*args, **kwds)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/pydoc.py", line 1774, in __call__
self.help(request)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/pydoc.py", line 1824, in help
else: doc(request, 'Help on %s:', output=self._output)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/pydoc.py", line 1560, in doc
pager(render_doc(thing, title, forceload))
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/pydoc.py", line 1553, in render_doc
return title % desc + '\n\n' + renderer.document(object, name)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/pydoc.py", line 338, in document
if inspect.ismodule(object): return self.docmodule(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/pydoc.py", line 1070, in docmodule
for key, value in inspect.getmembers(object, inspect.isclass):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/inspect.py", line 278, in getmembers
if not predicate or predicate(value):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/inspect.py", line 77, in isclass
return isinstance(object, type)
NameError: Unknown C global variable

test.h

extern int pia;

test.c

#include "test.h"
int pia = 0;

test.i:

%module test
%{
#include "test.h"
%}
%include "test.h"

[William Fulton]

I think the choice of 'test' might be your problem. If you change all 'test' to 'example' it all works for me. If I use your example as is, I get the help for http://docs.python.org/library/test (Python 2.6 and Python 3.1). Please try again with a different module name and reopen if you still have problems.