"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | "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!
According to a followup on python-dev, you can't. The above is the normal behavior (for CPython) but it can be modified by imports and cross-references. Or did you forget a smiley? tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
