mholub•2mo ago

private imports inside one cell

I tried to do such code

import subprocess as _subprocess
import os as _os

def open_symbol_location(symbol):
    location = get_symbol_location(symbol)
    _subprocess.Popen(
            ["code", location],
            preexec_fn=_os.setsid,
            stdout=_subprocess.DEVNULL,
            stderr=_subprocess.DEVNULL
        )

import subprocess as _subprocess
import os as _os

def open_symbol_location(symbol):
    location = get_symbol_location(symbol)
    _subprocess.Popen(
            ["code", location],
            preexec_fn=_os.setsid,
            stdout=_subprocess.DEVNULL,
            stderr=_subprocess.DEVNULL
        )

i.e. basically import modules as private variables just for a single cell when I am using such function in another cell - I am getting error Obviously it's not a big deal but could be useful situationally but I don't know if it's a bug or more like explicitly unsupported thing?

2 Replies

Akshay•2mo ago

I think that's a bug. Even this doesn't work. Looks like there's an edge case related to imports we don't handle

Akshay•2mo ago

Put up a fix. Thanks for reporting!