Well, one by one I checked for the presence of both sessions and session in the globals dictionary (within showReport(), but outside of the loops).
Neither one of them existed previously, thus and I received the exception about them not being found: File "/home/mjpl/hct/repository/hct/tutoo.py", line 219, in loadNext self.loadStage(self.cur+1) File "/home/mjpl/hct/repository/hct/tutoo.py", line 195, in loadStage self.stageFrame.show() File "/home/mjpl/hct/repository/hct/stages/resultadoframe/resultadoframe.py", line 17, in show self.listView.showReport() File "/home/mjpl/hct/repository/hct/widgets/deviceview.py", line 54, in showReport print globals()['session'] KeyError: 'session' So, I tried using other variable names for the outer and inner loops with the only difference of one letter. I then got the expected message about the variable name not being encountered. I returned the variable names to 'sessions' and 'session' respectively, and I got the same error about the name 'session' not being founded. I can only assume that there was some type of cache problem. Could it have been in the .pyc? I thought that was recompiled every time a .py is run/set to be interpreted. I'm sure I got that last sentence wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mateus wrote: > > print "hello world" > > > > I have a nested loop where the outer loop iterates over key value pairs > > of a dictionary and the inner loop iterates over a list each list of > > which is a mapped value from the dictionary > > > > def showReport(self): > > for dev, sessions in self.logger.items(): > > for tree in session: > > self.addTestItem(self, tree) > > > > What I don't understand is why this executes w/o any problems when > > "sessions" was spelled as plural (sessionS) while later being spelled > > in the singular (session). > > > > Is there some type of name resolution of local variables where Python > > makes assumptions? > > I've never heard of a rule disregarding ending 's'es and I really doubt > one > exists. > > Are you sure session isn't a global variable? You can check using > globals(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list