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On 10/05/2012 01:59 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:

I've never understood why locals() returned a mutable dictionary  
either, except that Python has no immutable dictionary type.

Ah, but these days it has types.MappingProxyType which provides a read-only wrapper around another mapping type. Perhaps that should be employed here.

/arry