Symbols as parameters?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:16:50 -0300, Alf P. Steinbach <alfps at start.no>  
escribió:

> I get the impression that there's some message traffic that I don't see,  
> perhaps on the mailing list, since (a) I haven't seen that about  
> 'locals' pointed out by anyone else in this thread, and I think I've  
> read all messages in the thread, and (b) sometimes threads pop up that  
> start with a reply.
>
> For example, the recent thread "Covert number into string" started with  
> a /reply/ in my newreader, using EternalSeptember's NNTP host.
>
> It also starts with a reply in Google's archives, <url:  
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/b8097d4de4a9c9b0/cb3a2e6ccd7736ef>.

gmane (news.gmane.org) is a newsserver that acts as a bridge news <->  
mailing lists. The post that started the thread you mention is available  
there, as well as those previous posts in this thread about the danger of  
using locals()

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Gabriel Genellina