updating local()

[jepler at unpythonic.net]

I'm surprised you found any example of 'locals().update' that worked.
Here's one that doesn't work:
	def f(y):
	    locals().update({'x': y})
	    return x
    
	print f(3)  # prints 3?

Jeff
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