Replacement for locals() ???

[Terry Reedy]

"Harald Massa" <cpl.19.ghum at spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
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> So two of the greatest PythonBrains have problems in optimizing Python
> because of locals(), the most common usage of Python in my practice is
> peripheral; so just by way of precaution I am looking for a replacement.

I suspect you are very prematurely optimizing.  Since you are filling out
SQL statements, I would expect that your bottlenecks are and will be the
execution of the statements, and not the construction of the statements.

tjr