NameError when referencing defined globals in the debugger.

[justanr]

Running werkzeug .10.4 wrapped around Django via Django-Extensions to use the Don't Panic! debugger in dev environments. Version of Python is 2.7.8.

I'm running into an issue where I can't access variables defined in the session from lambdas or functions defined in the debugger. Example:

import os
map(lambda x: os.path.basename(x.name), bucket.list())

Causes a NameError: global name 'os' is not defined. The same happens if I define an actual function.

import os
def get_key_basename(key): return os.path.basename(key.name)
map(get_key_basename, bucket.list())

Happens with pretty much any variable in the debugger's scope.

I see the the code being passed to Don't Panic through the dev server (?__debugger__=yes&cmd=...). I can't recall ever hitting this behavior and some quick searching only reveals that a NameError issue was fixed back in .6.1 (no details provided in the changelog).

We are running with reloading, but no reloading happens between starting the debugger and the NameError occurring.

If I've simply missed something, feel free to close this. Otherwise, I'm happy to provide my information as needed.

[untitaker]

It would be helpful if you could reproduce this with barebones-Werkzeug and without any Django.

[justanr]

Yeah, here's the simplest app that can reproduce.

from werkzeug.debug import DebuggedApplication
from werkzeug.serving import run_simple

def app(environ, start_response):
    raise Exception

if __name__ == '__main__':
    run_simple('localhost', 8000, DebuggedApplication(app, evalex=True))

Poking about some, it seems like debugger variables including imports get added to locals() and not globals(). For example:

# inside running debugged application
import os
(lambda: os)() # NameError
'os' in globals() # False
'os' in locals() # True
globals()['os'] = os
(lambda: os)() # <module 'os' ...>
'os' in globals() # True

Edit: This manifests in 2.7 and 3.5. I initially encountered it in Py 2.7, Werkzeug 0.10.4, but it manifests in 0.11.9 as well.