If you run
--
import sys
dir (sys)
--

within the Python shell in 2009, you get

[’__displayhook__’, ‘__doc__’, ‘__excepthook__’, ‘__name__’, ‘__stderr__’, ‘__stdin__’, ‘__stdout__’, ‘_current_frames’, ‘_getframe’, ‘api_version’, ‘builtin_module_names’, ‘byteorder’, ‘call_tracing’, ‘callstats’, ‘copyright’, ‘displayhook’, ‘dllhandle’, ‘exc_clear’, ‘exc_info’, ‘exc_type’, ‘excepthook’, ‘exec_prefix’, ‘executable’, ‘exit’, ‘exitfunc’, ‘getcheckinterval’, ‘getdefaultencoding’, ‘getfilesystemencoding’, ‘getrecursionlimit’, ‘getrefcount’, ‘getwindowsversion’, ‘hexversion’, ‘last_traceback’, ‘last_type’, ‘last_value’, ‘maxint’, ‘maxunicode’, ‘meta_path’, ‘modules’, ‘path’, ‘path_hooks’, ‘path_importer_cache’, ‘platform’, ‘prefix’, ‘setcheckinterval’, ‘setdefaultencoding’, ‘setprofile’, ‘setrecursionlimit’, ‘settrace’, ‘stderr’, ‘stdin’, ‘stdout’, ‘subversion’, ‘version’, ‘version_info’, ‘warnoptions’, ‘winver’]

where if you run up a python 2.5.1 shell outside Mobu, and call the same lines, you get

[’__displayhook__’, ‘__doc__’, ‘__excepthook__’, ‘__name__’, ‘__stderr__’, ‘__stdin__’, ‘__stdout__’, ‘_current_frames’, ‘_getframe’, ‘api_version’, ‘argv’, ‘builtin_module_names’, ‘byteorder’, ‘call_tracing’, ‘callstats’, ‘copyright’, ‘displayhook’, ‘dllhandle’, ‘exc_clear’, ‘exc_info’, ‘exc_traceback’, ‘exc_type’, ‘exc_value’, ‘excepthook’, ‘exec_prefix’, ‘executable’, ‘exit’, ‘getcheckinterval’, ‘getdefaultencoding’, ‘getfilesystemencoding’, ‘getrecursionlimit’, ‘getrefcount’, ‘getwindowsversion’, ‘hexversion’, ‘maxint’, ‘maxunicode’, ‘meta_path’, ‘modules’, ‘path’, ‘path_hooks’, ‘path_importer_cache’, ‘platform’, ‘prefix’, ‘setcheckinterval’, ‘setprofile’, ‘setrecursionlimit’, ‘settrace’, ‘stderr’, ‘stdin’, ‘stdout’, ‘subversion’, ‘version’, ‘version_info’, ‘warnoptions’, ‘winver’]

Any suggestions as to what’s happening? I’m trying to find a nice way to pass variables into a script called from within the mobu Python shell. This difference in the versions of the sys module make it a little harder.

Cheers