inspect.getclosurevars() does not get all globals

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#79,128 opened on Oct 9, 2018 3 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: tooling

Research direction

Start at inspect.getclosurevars() and reproduce the reported case where some globals are omitted. Trace how the function gathers closure variables and verify the fix against a focused regression test showing that all referenced globals are returned.

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Description

3.7 (EOL) stdlib type-bug

BPO	34947
Nosy	@MojoVampire, @jhrmnn

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assignee = None
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created_at = <Date 2018-10-09.20:58:00.924>
labels = ['3.7', 'type-bug', 'library']
title = 'inspect.getclosurevars() does not get all globals'
updated_at = <Date 2018-10-23.14:56:22.060>
user = 'https://github.com/jhrmnn'

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priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
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status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue34947'
versions = ['Python 3.7']

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