[Python-ideas] Enhancing vars()

[Matt Gilson]

<snip>


> It also refers to local and global variables, as vars() is effectively
> an alias for locals() if you don't pass an argument, and locals() is
> effectively an alias for globals() at module level:
>
> </snip

I was actually hoping that someone might propose to deprecate this
behavior.  Why do we need a cascade of namespaces looked up by `vars` (and
`locals`)?.  It seems to me that this just complicates what these functions
do and I don't see a clear reason for it.  Having a function do only one
thing might also help promote it's use in the cases where we want it to be
used (e.g. instead of accessing `__dict__` directly).

Of course, that might be too big a change to make any time soon... but a
guy can hope can't he?  :-)



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