"Calvin Spealman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Absolutely an irrelevent side effect, especially when you take into > consideration the 4 and counting alternative implementations of the > language. > > None the less, I can explain why it is as it is, keeping in mind its > not like that on purpose, its just how it is. Locals are optimized > into an array for fast lookup. Every name assigned to in a function is > known as a local in that function and this internal array holds its > reference. It is simply a product of the array indexes and deletion > order being the same, 0 to N. >
Oh good! Now I can write code that relies on this behavior! -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
