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

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 03:37:45 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:

Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:

What do you think about this code: class A: locals()[42] = 98 Seems people rely on it working. I apologize for my ignorance, but who? Could you please cite something reputable that relies on this detail?

It's in tests of sqlalchemy. My question is among the lines "should I bug sqlalchemy guys to remove this, or should I change pypy to accept this".



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