On 13/07/20 7:12 am, Larry Hastings wrote:
I dimly recall a precedent where the presence of locals() in a function body affected code generation,

The presence of exec used to do that, which is why it was a
statement rather than a function. But I don't think locals()
ever did -- how would the compiler know that it was calling
the builtin locals function and not something else?

--
Greg
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