nice python solution

[Michael Hudson]

Tom Loredo <loredo at astro.cornell.edu> writes:

> Steve Holden wrote:
> > 
> 
> > >   locals()[['a','b'][idx]] = val
> > >
> > This is absolutely verboten. I quote from Section 2.3 of the 2.0 manual, but
> > I don't think anything has changed since: """locals ()
> > Return a dictionary representing the current local symbol table. Warning:
> > The contents of this dictionary should not be modified; changes may not
> > affect the values of local variables used by the interpreter.
> > """
> 
> But the code only modifies one of the references "a" or "b", not
> the locals dictionary.  Or am I missing something?

localsdict = locals()
key = ['a','b'][idx]
localsdict[key] = val

... looks like it modifies the locals dictionary to me.  Don't do this.

Cheers,
M.

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