[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Apr 17 21:03:44 CEST 2010

Dino Viehland wrote:

Maciej wrote: [...]

And yet that breaks some code :-) Sure, if you do: class C(object): locals()[object()] = 42 dir(C) You lose. Once I'm aware of some piece of code in the wild doing this then I'll be happy to change IronPython to be more compatible. :) This would be a lose anyway, since the CPython specifications suggest that you should not rely on being able to change locals() (or at least shouldn't expect that such changes are actually reflected in the local namespace).

regards Steve

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