Update locals()

[holger krekel]

Hello,

how can you dynamically update the locals() namebindings?
Example what does *not* work:

def func(somedict):
    locals().update(somedict)
    print i

func({'i': None})

This fails on 'print i' with

    NameError: global name 'i' is not defined

dissassembled bytecode with 'import dis ; dis.dis(func)':

          0 SET_LINENO               1

          3 SET_LINENO               2
          6 LOAD_GLOBAL              0 (locals)
          9 CALL_FUNCTION            0
         12 LOAD_ATTR                1 (update)
         15 LOAD_FAST                0 (somedict)
         18 CALL_FUNCTION            1
         21 POP_TOP

         22 SET_LINENO               3
         25 LOAD_GLOBAL              3 (i)
         28 PRINT_ITEM
         29 PRINT_NEWLINE
         30 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
         33 RETURN_VALUE

Did the compiler decide [25] that 'i' must mean a global
binding? Is there an elegant way to get around this?

thanks,

    holger