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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:18:06 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 11/21/2013 06:02 PM, Dave Angel wrote:
> Catherine Moroney wrote:
>>
>> If I have a class that has some member functions, and all the
>> functions define a local variable of the same name (but
>> different type), is there some way to use getattr/setattr to
>> access the local variables specific to a given function?
>
> If you mean to access them from within the same method, someone
> else has already shown it using locals(). But you cannot access
>  locals from a method that's already terminated. They no longer exist.

Also, accessing is fine, but not all pythons support changing them.

--
~Ethan~