Python compilers?

[Konstantin Veretennicov]

Carl Banks <imbosol at aerojockey.invalid> wrote in message news:<38Yqc.166$eO6.128 at fe2.columbus.rr.com>...

> > There's more like it, e.g. the existence of the
> > locals() dictionary and the ability to modify it.
> 
> New feature?  I didn't think modifying the dict returned by locals
> affected the variables.
> 

Evidence of crime :)

Python 2.3.2
>>> x
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: name 'x' is not defined
>>> locals()['x'] = 1
>>> x
1


Not to mention stack frame magic available via inspect.*...


- kv