Why use "locals()"

Fri Sep 18 17:17:01 EDT 2009

On Sep 18, 9:55 am, Simon Forman <sajmik... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Sean DiZazzo <half.ital... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for your explanation Steven.  I see how it can be valuable, but
> > it seems to always break the second rule of Zen.  I don't really want
> > to get into the code of debuggers, but I guess I can see how they
> > might have no other way to know what local variables have been set.
>> > ~Sean
>> The zeroth "rule" of zen is "don't take the rules so seriously".
> "They're really more like guidelines anyway."
>> Regards,
> ~simon

Yeah. I think I was just a bit randy at that moment. I realized that
the (*args,**kwargs) idiom is very similar and I use it all the
time.
~Sean