execfile and function call

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:59:52 -0300, Dave Westerman <dlwester at comcast.net>  
escribi�:

> 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.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina