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Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 01:55:28 +1000
Subject: Re: Python handles globals badly.
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
>> And that's the thing... I think. It's using locals(), which starts out
>> as a copy of the function's locals (in this example, empty), but
>> without assignment affecting anything. Which is more than a little
>> weird:
>>
>>>>> def f():
>> ...     x = [1]
>> ...     exec("print(x); x[0] = 2; print(x); x = [3]; print(x)")
>> ...     print(x)
>> ...
>>>>> f()
>> [1]
>> [2]
>> [3]
>> [2]
>
> Ah, that makes sense. It's writing into the dict that is created and
> returned by locals(), but not actually updating the frame locals which
> are the source of truth.

Yeah... but it only makes sense to people who understand the
implementation. It's certainly not a logical and sane behaviour that
would be worth documenting and using.

ChrisA