The issue came up while trying to get some Sympy code running on CLPython.
class C:
exec "a = 3"
print locals()
1. Is it guaranteed that class C gets an attribute "a", i.e. that the
locals printed include {'a': 3}?
2. It it (also) guaranteed if it were in a function scope?
The complete syntax of exec is:
exec CODE in Y, Z
where Y, Z are optional.
The documentation of "exec" says "if the optional parts are
omitted,the code is executed in the current scope." There are at least
two different interpretations:
a. The code is executed in the current class scope, so the assignment
must have an effect on the class scope.
b. The scope defaults to the local scope, by which is meant the
mapping returned by locals(), and of locals() the documentation says
that changes made to it may not influence the interpreter. (The
documentation of exec suggests using globals() and locals() as
arguments to exec, which seems hint at this interpretation.)
The relevant documentation:
exec:
http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#grammar-token-exec_stmt
locals: http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#locals
- Willem
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