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Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:42:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Using non-dict namespaces in functions
From: Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com>
To: "Steven D'Aprano" <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Note that it is important for my purposes that MockChainMap does not
> inherit from dict.

Care to elaborate?

> Now I try to create a function that uses a MockChainMap instead of a dict
> for its globals:
>
> function =3D type(lambda: None)
> f =3D lambda x: (a+b+x)
> g =3D function(f.__code__, MockChainMap(), 'g')
>
> And that's where I get into trouble:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> =A0File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> TypeError: function() argument 2 must be dict, not MockChainMap
>
>
> How do I build a function with globals set to a non-dict mapping?
>
> If this can't be done, any suggestions for how I might proceed?

This looks like one of those cases where there is strict type checking
(of a Python object) at the C level.  You may consider bringing this
up in a tracker ticket.  Unless there are performance implications,
it's likely a case of no one having bothered to change this spot to be
more duck-type friendly.  There are quite a few of those in CPython
and I've seen at least a couple updated when someone brought it up.

Regardless, you could also implement __call__() on a function
look-alike class to get what you're after.  It may not be as
performant though.

-eric