
Hi Nick, Regarding `f_locals` PEP 558 states: """ Instead of being a direct reference to the internal dynamic snapshot used to populate the independent snapshots returned by locals(), frame.f_locals will be updated to instead return a dedicated proxy type (implemented as a private subclass of the existing types.MappingProxyType) that has two internal attributes not exposed as part of the Python runtime API: * mapping: an implicitly updated snapshot of the function local variables and closure references, as well as any arbitrary items that have been set via the mapping API, even if they don't have storage allocated for them on the underlying frame * frame: the underlying frame that the snapshot is for """ This seems rather complex, and consequently fragile. I fear that this is just going to result in different bugs, rather than fixing the bugs it proposes to fix. Why not just make `f_local` a direct view on the underlying frame? It would be simpler to understand, more robust, and should perform better. Cheers, Mark.