Eyal Lotem wrote:

>       locals()['x'] = 1 # Quietly fails!
> Replaced by:
>       frame.x = 1 # Raises error

Or even better, replaced by

    frame.x = 1 # Does the right thing

The frame object knows enough to be able to find
the correct locals slot and update it, so there's
no need for this to fail.

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