[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: > >>> locals['x']=5 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: 'builtin_function_or_method' object does not support item > assignment
Whoops, yeah, meant "locals()['x'] = 5". > I think that ideally there should be a runtime error when assigning an > item of locals() with a key that's not a local variable name (possibly > excepting functions containing exec, which are kind of screwy anyway). I have no opinion of this, locals() has always seemed like a crazy part of the language to me and I never use it. I'd be happy to see it gone since it makes compiling a lot easier. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
