[Jython-dev] nested scopes status; tiny CPython Jython diff

[Samuele P. <pe...@in...>]

Hi.

What is still missing for a complete nested scopes support?

* activation for the entire interactive session from an interactive prompt
  (mostly already there)
* module settings should influence exec, execfile and compile in module  (at the 
moment that's missing from CPython too)
* pdb p command cannot access values in variables shared between
  nested scopes, that's also a CPython problem.
* jythonc support for them
*  CPython 2.1 introduces a symtable module that give access
 to the scope info about variables, for the moment
 the interface is experimental and related to the actual internals,
 I don't know if it is worth to support (?)

I have found a small difference in how assert was already implemented in 
jython and CPython:

this code does not raise an AssertionError under jython:

def f():
 __debug__=0
 assert 1!=0
f()

CPython impl for assert check only the value for the global/builtin __debug__
setting, there this code raise such an exc.

Should this be changed to match CPython?

regards, Samuele Pedroni