[Python-Dev] Scope object (Re: nonlocals() function?) (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Apr 6 01:35:24 CEST 2010

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

Maybe it would be better to deprecate globals() and locals() and replace them with another function called something like scope().

It is useful to distinguish between globals (i.e., module-level variables) and locals, so replacing them with scope() would not be better IMO.

It would return a mapping object that looks up names in the current scope. It could also improve on locals() by being writable.

If you can prove that making locals() (or its replacement) writable doesn't complicate the interpreter core too much, then why not. Otherwise -1 :-)

Regards

Antoine.