execfile and function call

[Dave Westerman]

I've got a Jython script where I'm doing an execfile() to pull in a
small script that contains a function, which I then call.

execfile(app_applscript)
optionList = createOptionList(applOptions)

When I do this at the global level in my main script, it works just
fine. However, when I move this code into a function in my main script,
then it fails, telling me it can't find the function createOptionList().

Traceback (innermost last):
File "<string>", line 459, in ?
File "<string>", line 429, in processApplication
NameError: createOptionList

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I noticed that
createOptionList no longer shows up when I do a dir(). Do I somehow have
to get that to be a global? How do I do that?

 

[timaranz]

I'm not sure why it doesn't work, but a better way would be to use the
import statement:

import app_applscrip
app_applscript.createOptionList(applOptions)

Cheers
Tim

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

I've got a Jython script where I'm doing an execfile() to pull in a
small script that contains a function, which I then call.

execfile(app_applscript)
optionList = createOptionList(applOptions)

When I do this at the global level in my main script, it works just
fine. However, when I move this code into a function in my main script,
then it fails, telling me it can't find the function createOptionList().

Traceback (innermost last):
File "<string>", line 459, in ?
File "<string>", line 429, in processApplication
NameError: createOptionList

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? I noticed that
createOptionList no longer shows up when I do a dir(). Do I somehow have
to get that to be a global? How do I do that?

To answer your specific question: Use execfile(app_applscript, globals())
instead (see <http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-26>)
But I think it would be better to *import* createOptionList from that
module. Using __import__ or imp may help, but the details are a bit
different in Jython so I can't help you so much in this regard.