[Python-Dev] Changing a value in a frame (for a debugger) (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 8 00:06:56 CET 2007

Fabio Zadrozny wrote:

Would it be ok to add a feature request for that?

It seems a reasonable thing to suggest. Instead of a copy, locals() could return a mapping object that is a view of the underlying array. The only limitation then would be that you couldn't add new keys.

I initially thought it was completely read-only, but I find it strange that it affects the topmost frame correctly

That's because the topmost frame has a module's dict as its locals, so in that case you are modifying them directly. It's only code compiled as the body of a function that uses an array for locals.

-- Greg

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