[Python-Dev] bug or a feature?

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> wrote:
> What do you think about this code:
>
> class A:
>   locals()[42] = 98
>
> Seems people rely on it working. Do we consider it part of python
> language? (Note that you cannot do the same with getattr/setattr which
> checks if argument is a string)

Seems like a bug to me, but I don't think there is much we can do
about it short of making locals a custom dict which rejects none
string keys.


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