On 02/05/2014 12:45 PM, Alex Rodrigues wrote:

I like the idea of requiring that inline functions be called in a special way that denotes them.

I don't. ;)

Otherwise it does add a much bigger area that a maintainer must look for possible bugs. Also on the topic of locals(), note this from the python docs:

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Note

The contents of this dictionary [the locals() dict] should not be modified; changes may not affect the values of local and free variables used by the interpreter.

Irrelevant. `**locals()` expands the locals dict to be keywords and values, which are then gathered into a new dict: --> def print_me(**args): ... print(id(args)) ... for k, v in args.items(): ... print(k, v) --> def tester(): ... a = 1 ... b = 2 ... c = 3 ... d = locals() ... print(id(d)) ... print_me(**d) --> tester() 33842528 # locals() dict 33842240 # args dict ('a', 1) ('c', 3) ('b', 2) As you can see, the two dicts are different. Further, you could have print_me be more specific about what it uses: --> def print_me(a, b, **not_used): ... print(a, b) and still call it with **locals(). -- ~Ethan~ P.S. Tested using Python 2.7.