On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Raymond Hettinger < raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Since eval/exec can use arbitrary mappings for locals, you can use your > custom dictionary while executing arbitrary python code. Essentially, > you're executing python code in an environment where the lookup function for > locals has been trained to handle your custom descriptor protocol. >>>I just signed up for python-ideas a month or two ago, how many awesome(ly dangerous) hacks like this have I missed over the years? About-to-eval-away-the-next-six-months-ly yours, Don -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20110330/bfe150c1/attachment.html>