[Python-Dev] bug or a feature? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson musiccomposition at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 03:14:39 CEST 2008

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:

What do you think about this code:

class A: locals()[42] = 98 Seems people rely on it working. Do we consider it part of python language? (Note that you cannot do the same with getattr/setattr which checks if argument is a string)

Seems like a bug to me, but I don't think there is much we can do about it short of making locals a custom dict which rejects none string keys.

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