user-supplied locals dict for function execution?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Lonnie Princehouse a écrit :
> Occaisionally, the first two lines of The Zen of Python conflict with
> one another.

"""
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
"""

Err... I see no contradiction nor conflict here.

> An API I'm working on involves a custom namespace implementation using
> dictionaries, and I want a pretty syntax for initializing the custom
> namespaces.  The fact that these namespaces are implemented as
> dictionaries is an implementation detail, and I don't want the users to
> access them directly. 

Ok. That's effectively not a very common use case. And I agree than it's 
far better to abstract implementation details. (And FWIW, I still have 
no clean solution - but I'm not a guru).