An expression that rebinds a variable?

[Maric Michaud]

GreenH a écrit :
> Can I know what kind of expressions rebind variables, of course unlike
> in C, assignments are not expressions (for a good reason)
> So, eval(expr) should bring about a change in either my global or
> local namespace, where 'expr' is the expression
> 

For global scope you could use globals().__setitem__('x', 5) but it's 
not possible in local scope because the dict returned by locals() in 
function is not where the local variables are really stored.

So the preferred way is to use :

In [39]: exec "x=5"

which the same as :

In [40]: eval(compile('x=5', '<string>', 'exec'))


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