[Python-Dev] [SPAM?] Re: PEP 558: Defined semantics for locals()

[Terry Reedy]

On 5/27/2019 3:18 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Except that it does. After calling locals() a second time, the result
>> of the *first* call will be updated to reflect changes.
> 
> Yeow. That's *really* unintuitive. There had better be an extremely
> good reason for this behaviour.

I believe that the situation is or can be thought of as this: there is 
exactly 1 function locals dict.  Initially, it is empty and inaccessible 
(unusable) from code.  Each locals() call updates the dict to a current 
snapshot and returns it.


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Terry Jan Reedy