Replacement for locals() ???

[Christian Tismer]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Harald> I read within psysco-FAQ and Jim Hugoninis IronPython paper: a
>     Harald> lot of words about "locals() being very difficult or impossible
>     Harald> to optimize"
> 
>     Harald> AND UNTIL
> 
>     Harald> so ... is there any convenient replacement? Of course I could do
> 
>     Harald> {"id":id, "surename":surename} , but that would be very very
>     Harald> in-elegant.
> 
> That's the only solution I've found so far.  Makes for rather ugly code.  If
> you have to choose, what do you want, fast or pretty? <wink>

You can have both: fast and pretty.
That's why I got interested in Bytecodehacks:
I can write locals(), but transform that into
the explicit from by introspection, and replace
the function before I use it.
(Haven't written an un-local()iser yet, but it
seems straight forward).

ciao - chris

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