Update locals()

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 09:57:25PM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> how can you dynamically update the locals() namebindings?

You don't.  See the library documentation:
    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.

Whenever a name is not bound inside a function, it is a global (it could
never have a definition inside the function, so if the name comes from
anywhere, it's global).  If there's a "global" declaration, then it's
global.  If there's an assignment, then it's a local -- but changing a key
in locals still doesn't work (or is at least permitted not to work).

You probably need to rethink the way you're approaching the problem.

Jeff