On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 05:52:16PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> def test(): >> a = 1 >> b = 2 >> vars = {key: locals()[key] for key in locals()} >> return vars >> >> What would your intuition say? Should this be equivalent to dict(locals()) ? > > That example is so elegant it makes me want to cry. > > And not just because you shadowed the vars() builtin *wink*
It gets funnier with nested loops. Or scarier. I've lost the ability to distinguish those two. def test(): spam = 1 ham = 2 vars = [key1+key2 for key1 in locals() for key2 in locals()] return vars Wanna guess what that's gonna return? ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com