[Python-Dev] frame.f_locals is writable (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Sat Jan 15 04🔞25 CET 2005


Shane Holloway (IEEE) wrote:

Yes. After poking around in Google with PyFrameLocalsToFast, I found some other links to people doing that. I implemented a direct call using ctypes to make the code explicit about what's happening. I'm just glad it is possible now. Works fine in both 2.3 and 2.4.

I realised after posting that the exec-based hack only works for poking values into the current frame's locals, so my trick wouldn't have done what you needed, anyway.

Cheers, Nick.

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