Marco Mariani wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Yes, it makes it more readable. And yes, it does make it (a lot) more >> maintainable. Mainly because I don't have those four variables, I have >> about thirty. And I think I won't need to one or two of them, but >> maybe all of them at once. > > have fun with locals(), then (but please feel dirty :-) > > loc = locals() > for var in [ > 'foo', # INSERT > 'bar', # COMMENT > 'baz' # HERE > ]: > loc[var] = 42 > And bear in mind there is an explicit notification of the danger of this course of action in the CPython documentation, which refuses to guarantee that changes made to the object returns by locals() will ve reflected in the local namespace.
You have been warned. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
