Question about locals()

Tue May 19 00:35:04 EDT 2009

Hello,

Could you please explain why locals() allow me to create variables that are
not legal in Python syntax. Example: locals()['1abc'] = 55. Calling of 1abc
results with a syntax error. Shouldn't it be better to raise an error during
the variable creation time?

Thank you

Gökhan
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