[Python-Dev] [PEP 558] thinking through locals() semantics

[MRAB]

On 2019-06-02 13:51, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2019 at 11:52:02PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Armin Rigo wrote:
>> >You have the occasional big function that benefits a lot from being
>> >JIT-compiled but which contains ``.format(**locals())``.
>> 
>> There should be a lot less need for that now that we have f-strings.
> 
> I think you're forgetting that a lot of code (especially libraries)
> either have to support older versions of Python, and so cannot use
> f-strings at all, or was written using **locals before f-strings came
> along, and hasn't been touched since.
> 
> Another case where f-strings don't help is when the template is
> dynamically generated.
> 
> It may be that there will be less new code written using **locals() but
> I don't think that the **locals() trick will disappear any time before
> Python 5000.
> 
We've had .format_map since Python 3.2, so why use 
``.format(**locals())`` instead of ``.format_map(locals())``?