Is access to locals() of "parent" namespace possible?

[André]

On Jul 27, 6:01 pm, Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 20:46 +0000, André wrote:
> > I want to give a user the possibility of "restarting" an interactive
> > session, by removing all the objects defined by her since the
> > beginning.  The way I make this possible is by having a "function"
> > that can be called during the interactive session using locals() as an
> > argument, as follows:
>
> > restart(locals())
>
> > It works.  However, I would like to make this "friendlier", i.e.
> > requiring the user to simply type
>
> > restart()
>
> > and have the code extract out the value of locals() of the "parent"
> > namespace.  I thought it might be possible using sys._getframe, but I
> > have not been able to figure out why.
>
> inspect.currentframe(1).f_locals
>
> The same caveats for locals() apply here: Modifications to this
> dictionary may or may not be visible to the caller.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Carsten Haesehttp://informixdb.sourceforge.net

Thanks, it worked!

André