iterating initalizations

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:20:59 -0500
Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > Well, if all you want is a loop:
> > 
> >     for v in vars:
> >         locals()[v] = []
> > 
> Note that this isn't guaranteed to work. While locals() will return a
> dict containing the names and values from the local namespace, you won't
> affect the local namespace by assigning values to the appropriate keys:
> 
> >>> def f():
> ...   a = "hello"
> ...   locals()["a"] = "goodbye"
> ...   print a

This was my test:

>>> locals()['x'] = "hello"
>>> x
'hello'
>>> locals()['x'] = "goodbye"
>>> x
'goodbye'

Just didn't want people to think that I post without testing.

In any case, even if that worked as expected I am pretty sure that it
is the wrong solution but without knowing more about what the OP is
doing it is impossible to know what the right answer is.

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