I am trying to create a function that will shelve all my variables from the caller function. In the following example: shelve.out would contain junk1, junk2, junk3 when the variables are loaded.
def SavePoint():
print('shelving stuff')
filename = 'shelve.out'
my_shelf = shelve.open(filename, 'n') # 'n' for new
for key in dir():
try:
my_shelf[key] = globals()[key]
except TypeError:
#
# __builtins__, my_shelf, and imported modules can not be shelved.
#
print('ERROR shelving: {0}'.format(key))
my_shelf.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
junk1 = 'a'
junk2 = 'b'
junk3 = 'c'
SavePoint()
My goal is to troubleshoot a error. I have a hard time replicating the error and the code is taking a long time to run. I know I can turn on "Python Exception Breakpoint" but the code change breaks something else so this would just allow me to skip this code that take a while to run. I am also trying to minimize the amount of code it takes. I know I can also paste in the function and that will work but this would just be one line change as opposed to 10. Not sure this can be done but I thought I would see if anyone had any ideas.
