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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 11:50:59 CEST 2008

Greg Ewing wrote:

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? Yep - it just happens to work for class and module level namespaces in CPython.

Implementations are also permitted to restrict namespace dictionaries to only accept string keys (I believe Jython does this for performance reasons - CPython just optimised the hell out of normal dictionaries that happen to only contain string keys instead).

So I don't see any reason for Maciej to mess with PyPy to support code which deliberately makes use of formally undefined behaviour.

Cheers, Nick.

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