[Python-Dev] Very Strange Argument Handling Behavior

[Steve Holden]

Dino Viehland wrote:
> Maciej wrote:
[...]
>> And yet that breaks some code :-)
> 
> Sure, if you do:
> 
> class C(object):
>     locals()[object()] = 42
> 
> dir(C)
> 
> You lose.  Once I'm aware of some piece of code in the wild doing this
> then I'll be happy to change IronPython to be more compatible. :)
> 
> 
This would be a lose anyway, since the CPython specifications suggest
that you should not rely on being able to change locals() (or at least
shouldn't expect that such changes are actually reflected in the local
namespace).

regards
 Steve
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