Caleb Hattingh wrote: > In what way is it unreliable? I can't seem to create a situation where > the update through globals and locals doesn't work. Are you referring
Updates to a locals() dictionary may not be reflected by the variables in the local scope, e. g.: >>> def f(): ... locals()["a"] = 1 ... print a ... >>> f() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? File "<stdin>", line 3, in f NameError: global name 'a' is not defined >>> def f(): ... a = 42 ... locals()["a"] = 1 ... print a ... >>> f() 42 Updating globals() should be safe. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
