__file__ not defined

[Fazlul Shahriar]

__file__ is not defined when the script is given as a command line agrument. It works fine when given to plain cpython. This is ipython 0.9.1 and cpython 2.6.2.

$ cat hello.py

print __file__
$ python hello.py
hello.py
$ ipython hello.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/Magic.py:38: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
  from sets import Set
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError Traceback (most recent call last)

/tmp/hello.py in <module>()
      1
----> 2
      3 print __file__
      4
      5

NameError: name '__file__' is not defined
WARNING: Failure executing file: <hello.py>

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[Fernando Perez (fdo.perez)]

Thanks for the report, fix committed to trunk in r1254.

[Erik Allik (eallik)]

Still experiencing this issue as if 0.12.1.

[Erik Allik (eallik)]

P.S. running an .ipy script, not a regular .py file—could be relevant.