Unknown screen output of manually installed Python 2.7 - python

I installed Python 2.7 today using:
./configure --prefix=/home/zhanwu/local --enable-shared --enable-profiling --with-pydebug
make install
Then I keep getting something like "[37745 refs]" on screen after each function call:
[zhanwu#cluster ~]$ ~/local/bin/python
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 17:45:05)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
[37745 refs]
>>> print 'test'
test
[37745 refs]
>>> sys.exit()
[18048 refs]
[zhanwu#cluster ~]$
What does those numbers mean? Anything wrong here and can I get rid of them?
uname -a result:
[zhanwu#cluster ~]$ uname -a
Linux cluster.xxx.xxx.xxx 2.6.18-128.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jun 17 06:38:05 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

You get these because you configured the build with --with-pydebug. They denote the number of references Python is currently keeping track of. To get rid of them, configure without --with-pydebug.

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Python os.environ doesn't show empty environment variables

After an environment variable is exported and set to empty, I can't get its value in Python with os.environ. Is it expected?
Examples:
## export TEST_ENV_VAR
(base) ➜ Code export | grep TEST_ENV_VAR
TEST_ENV_VAR=''
(base) ➜ Code python
Python 3.8.12 (default, Oct 12 2021, 13:49:34)
[GCC 7.5.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> 'TEST_ENV_VAR' in os.environ
False
## export TEST_ENV_VAR=''
(base) ➜ Code export | grep TEST_ENV_VAR
TEST_ENV_VAR=''
(base) ➜ Code python
Python 3.8.12 (default, Oct 12 2021, 13:49:34)
[GCC 7.5.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> 'TEST_ENV_VAR' in os.environ
True
## export TEST_ENV_VAR='TEST'
(base) ➜ Code export | grep TEST_ENV_VAR
TEST_ENV_VAR=TEST
(base) ➜ Code python
Python 3.8.12 (default, Oct 12 2021, 13:49:34)
[GCC 7.5.0] :: Anaconda, Inc. on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> 'TEST_ENV_VAR' in os.environ
True
The three samples above run in three different new terminals. I modified the .zshrc file to export different values. What's the difference between export foo and export foo=''?
There is a difference between "Shell variables" and "Environment Variables" - see here - A shell variable is only available to the shell setting it whereas an environment variable is available to all child processes as well.
In bash - you can get the list of environment variables with env, and add to the environment variables with export
SHELL_VAR="10"
env | grep SHELL_VAR # No result
export ENV_VAR=100
env | grep ENV_VAR # ENV_VAR=100
Python shell (child process) picks the environment variables when you try an os.environ
'SHELL_VAR' in os.environ # False
'ENV_VAR' in os.environ # True
The issue is the way you are defining your variables.
When you just do:
export FOO
no variable is actually exported unless FOO has been defined previously:
FOO=''
export FOO
or concomitantly:
export FOO=''
If FOO appears in env | grep FOO, it should appear in os.environ.

Using pwntools process interactive mode to control python3

I am trying to use pwntools to control a python3 session. Here is my code:
from pwn import process
r = process(['python3'])
r.interactive()
However, after I enter r.interactive(), when I type into the terminal, the python3 sub-process has strange reactions. At least I do not see my commands echoed back most of the times.
I also tried to call python3 in a bash session, but the same thing happens.
$ python3
Python 3.8.5 (default, Jan 27 2021, 15:41:15)
[GCC 9.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from pwn import process
>>> r = process(['bash'])
[x] Starting local process '/usr/bin/bash'
[+] Starting local process '/usr/bin/bash': pid 119080
>>> r.interactive()
[*] Switching to interactive mode
echo hello
hello
echo this is bash
this is bash
python3
print(1)
print(2)
print(3)
exit
echo hello
File "<stdin>", line 5
echo hello
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Why is this happening? Is it a bug in pwntools, or are there some configurations I overlook?
You need to specify the PTY in your shell, so like this:
$ python3
Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from pwn import *; r = process(['python3'], stdin=PTY, raw=False); r.interactive()
[x] Starting local process '/usr/bin/python3'
[+] Starting local process '/usr/bin/python3': pid 2984281
[*] Switching to interactive mode
Python 3.9.2 (default, Feb 28 2021, 17:03:44)
[GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 1+1
1+1
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>>>

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Platform: Excess onDemand (EoD) with Red hat version6.10
Here I have launched spyder3 application and spyder3 comes up with black display.
I even can not see its toolbar.
I suspect this is pyqt problem and but dont know how to debug it below are details
Python 3.6.4 (default, Jan 31 2018, 22:47:26)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18)] on linux
>>> >>> >>> PYQT_VERSION = 329473
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QOpenGLVersionProfile = <class 'PyQt5.QtGui.QOpenGLVersionProfile'>
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eshell starts python IDLE instead of running script when editing remotely

With Emacs 24.3.1, I get this when editing through Tramp/ssh in eshell:
/<remotepath> $ bash
/<remotepath> $ python test.py
hello world!
/<remotepath> $ exit
exit
/<remotepath> $ python test.py
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 12 2012, 14:23:48)
[GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
The file test.py is:
print "hello world!"
Bash is version 4.1.2. Does anyone have any explanation for this behavior?
I don't know eshell, but my guess is you forget to pass the positional parameters when creating your alias:
# don't forget the quotes
# ▼ ▼
~ $ alias python '/path/to/alternate/python $*'
# ▲▲
# don't forget positional parameters
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Disable python auto-escaping for environment variables

I am having the following problem with python, being used to generate
files on Linux, that are being read on Windows. Python is auto-escaping
the strings, so that when written to a file, they are incorrect.
In my shell I have the environment variable set to a UNC path:
camd011> setenv python_error "\\\\a\\b\\c"
camd011> echo $python_error
\\a\b\c
I then retrieve this in python, as it will be used to generate C code
and a #include directive. However when I retrieve the value in python:
camd011> python
Python 1.6.1 (#1, Oct 17 2013, 15:08:20) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2
Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam.
All Rights Reserved.
>>> import os
>>> value = os.environ['python_error']
>>> value
'\\\\\\\\a\\\\b\\\\c'
As you can see above it has been auto-escaped, thus when I write it to a file:
>>> f = open("temp.txt", "w")
>>> f.write(value)
>>> f.close()
I end up with double-slashes, instead of a proper UNC path, and the code
now fails to compile. File:
\\\\a\\b\\c
i.e. the code includes a #include which now fails:
#include "\\\\a\\b\\c\file.h"
How do I stop python from auto-escaping my environment variable?
This appears to be a problem with quoting and dequoting in tcsh. It has nothing to do with Python -- Python gets the same variable that you can print out with the env command.
It appears that in tcsh, echo $FOO de-quotes the value of $FOO before printing. This seems to have misled you about what is really in your environment variable, so you've added an extra layer of quoting.
unaha-closp:~> setenv FOO "\\hello\world"
unaha-closp:~> echo $FOO
\hello\world
unaha-closp:~> env | grep FOO
FOO=\\hello\world
unaha-closp:~> python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
>>> print os.environ["FOO"]
\\hello\world
>>>
unaha-closp:~> bash
svk#unaha-closp:~$ echo $FOO
\\hello\world
The proper setenv command should simply be setenv python_error "\\a\b\c".

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