In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote:
> "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Python stores local variables in an indexed array, but globals in a
>> > dictionary. Looking things up by index is faster than looking them up by
>> > name.
>>
>> Interesting. How is the index computed? I would have assumed that locals()
>> is somehow used, which is a dicht.
>
> They're static indexes assigned at compile time.
Which BTW is the reason why ``locals()['answer'] = 42`` does not work
within functions. The dictionary isn't the dictionary that's used for
locals but a proxy just for read access.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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