I know that locals() is not supposed to be modifiable under most circumstances, but I'm trying to solve a situation where I'm dynamically generating some class attributes and it seemed to be the best way, so I tried something out that seems to work but I'm not sure that it's kosher:
>>> def f(l): ... l['b'] = 1 ... >>> class A: ... f(locals()) ... >>> A.b 1 In my code, I'm doing something quite a bit more complex than just assigning a single attribute, but this is the simplest use case example. Is there a reason why this works and is it safe to rely on it or is there a better approach? BTW, this works in a program too, it's not just an artifact of the command line interpreter globals() = locals() thing. Thanks Ed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
