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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 11 06:02:13 CEST 2008


Maciej Fijalkowski 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?

Modifying the dict returned by locals() is documented as NOT being guaranteed to work, isn't it?

-- Greg



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