How do I do this? (eval() on the left hand side)

[Nick Coghlan]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 
>> Generally, altering the contents of the dicts returned by locals() and 
>> globals() is unreliable at best.
> 
> 
> Nick, could you please comment on why you say this about globals()?
> I've never heard of any possibility of "unreliability" in updating
> globals() and, as far as I know, a large body of code exists which
> does in fact rely on this -- much of mine included. ;-)

As Steve pointed out, I was, well, flat out wrong. You're quite correct - it's 
only locals() that can cause a problem.

Cheers,
Nick.

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