On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 03:15:01AM +0530, Sidharth Kuruvila wrote: > Python has a builtin function called locals which returns the local > context as a dictionary > > >>> locals = locals() > >>> locals["a"] = 5 > >>> a > 5 > >>> locals["a"] = "changed" > >>> a > 'changed'
>From Python lib reference: """ locals() ... Warning: The contents of this dictionary should not be modified; changes may not affect the values of local variables used by the interpreter. """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list