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Evaluate notebook vs. cell by cell evaluation?

Posted 8 years ago

We have a bug that occurs on one machine and not others. The bug does not occur when "Evaluate Notebook" from the Evaluation menu is used with a fresh kernel. But it does occur when, with a fresh kernel, the notebook is evaluated by hand, cell by cell, in order. The first statement loads a package. My question is: What is the difference in the evaluation for these two methods that could cause a difference?

POSTED BY: David J M Park Jr

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Posted 8 years ago

Just as a random thought for debugging this, check to see in the first case if the symbols defined in the package also exist in the Global` context. This may lead to nothing....

POSTED BY: David Reiss

Posted 8 years ago

I was concerned about that because some of the symbols were `Private` symbols in the package. But then we carefully picked symbols that were not Private or exported. The main symptom of failure is that the notebook loses connection to the package context. And this even occurs on subsequent Input cells where exported symbols get changed to symbols with the package context attached - because it no longer recognizes it.