[Python-Dev] PEP 558: Defined semantics for locals() (original) (raw)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun May 26 07:20:53 EDT 2019


On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 8:07 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

On Sun, May 26, 2019 at 08:44:33AM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:

> From my reading of the description, you could also "assert a is b" - > is that correct? Yes, that's already the behaviour. py> def demo(): ... a = locals() ... b = locals() ... print(a is b) ... py> demo() True

Sure, but this PEP is all about defining things that weren't previously defined, so I wanted to clarify intent rather than current behaviour.

ChrisA



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