{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MDSplus/mdsplus/issues/78","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MDSplus/mdsplus/issues/78/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MDSplus/mdsplus/issues/78/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/MDSplus/mdsplus/issues/78/events","html_url":"https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus/issues/78","id":106005346,"number":78,"title":"calling python functions from tdi does not support _variables","user":{"login":"zack-vii","id":6230702,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6230702?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii","html_url":"https://github.com/zack-vii","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/zack-vii/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-09-11T13:02:03Z","updated_at":"2015-09-11T13:02:03Z","closed_at":null,"body":"This is probably one for Tom.\r\nThe variable type \"Ident\" should not be passes as object of itself but its content.\r\nOr in short: Variables should be evaluated (one layer) before sending to python.\r\n\r\n>_a=1\r\n>pytest(_a)\r\n\r\nreturns\r\n\r\n>\"<class 'MDSplus.ident.Ident'>\"\r\n\r\ninstead of\r\n\r\n>\"<class 'MDSplus.mdsscalar.Int32'>\"\r\n\r\nsince the variable does not exist inside the python environment getting its value will fail"}}