Scoping bugs in an embedded Python interpreter - Wizards please

[Fredrik Lundh]

morris.slutsky at gmail.com wrote:

> But .... I'm suffering from serious scoping bugs.  I hope someone here
> can help me with them.
> 
> First of all, if I type in something like;
> 
> def f(x):
>      if x==1:
>           return x
>      else:
>           return x * f(x-1)
> 
> and then go
> print f(5)
> 
> I get an error.  It says 'global name 'f' is not defined'.  So
> recursion won't work because of some odd scoping bug.

looks like the globals are all messed up.  it would help to see the 
actual C code.

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