[Python-ideas] Re: Keyword arguments self-assignment

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:22 PM Chris Angelico rosuav@gmail.com wrote:

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 6:18 AM M.-A. Lemburg mal@egenix.com wrote:

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Instead of keeping values in local variables, you store them in the namespace object

Meaning that every *local* use of those same names now has to be adorned with "ns." to access the same thing:

ns.channel = get_channel_setup(ns.channelid)

Thanks, I think that's even worse than using locals(). Didn't think that was possible. :)

Whether it's worse or not will very much be situation dependent, but my experie3nce is that if I'm passing a bunch of keyword arguments along, most of them, ate NOT used directly in the local namespace anyway.

-CHB