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 Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
