String changing on the fly

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 25 16:43:36 EDT 2004


Dave Benjamin <ramen at lackingtalent.com> wrote:
   ...
> If you've got a lot of dictionary construction and deconstruction to do,
> this simple trick can save a lot of {'redundant': redundant,
> 'mapping': mapping} between locals and dictionaries.

Nah -- just pass in locals() as an argument!

> (but of course it still feels dirty)

So don't do it!-)


Alex



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