Declaring variables from a list

[Inyeol Lee]

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:15:01AM +0530, Sidharth Kuruvila wrote:
> Python has a builtin function called locals which returns the local
> context as a dictionary
> 
> >>> locals = locals()
> >>> locals["a"] = 5
> >>> a
> 5
> >>> locals["a"] = "changed"
> >>> a
> 'changed'

>From Python lib reference:

"""
locals()
    ...
    Warning: The contents of this dictionary should not be
    modified; changes may not affect the values of local variables used
    by the interpreter. 
"""