[Python-Dev] Scope object (Re: nonlocals() function?)

[Michael Foord]

On 06/04/2010 00:37, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Steve Bonner <pythonsteve <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> What do we think of adding a built-in nonlocals() function that would
>>> be similar to globals() and locals()?
>>
>> These scopes don't have parallel capabilities:
>
> Maybe it would be better to deprecate globals() and locals()
> and replace them with another function called something like
> scope(). It would return a mapping object that looks up
> names in the current scope. It could also improve on locals()
> by being writable.
>
Well, not a bad idea but it belongs on python-ideas and would be covered 
by the language moratorium. :-)

Michael

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