help me

[Andrew Dalke]

dataangel wrote:
> Well, I remember looking up the exec keyword and it saying executes a 
> string. Thus, it seemed like the normal way to execute a string, lol.

But why did that seem like it should be the normal way
to do variable assignment to global?

BTW, locals() doesn't work like you want in part because
that prevents a performance optimization where local
variable lookups are done in O(1) time as an offset
into a fixed size table.  I suppose it would be possible
to have locals() be able to manipulate that table behind
the scenes, but then that would be complicated and complex.

				Andrew
				dalke at dalkescientific.com