Terry Reedy wrote:
I believe that the situation is or can be thought of as this: there is exactly 1 function locals dict. Initially, it is empty and inaccessible (unusable) from code. Each locals() call updates the dict to a current snapshot and returns it.
Yes, I understand *what's* happening, but not *why* it was designed that way. Would it really be probihitively expensive to create a fresh dict each time? -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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