On 30 August 2011 22:48, Rob Williscroft <r...@rtw.me.uk> wrote: > Arnaud Delobelle wrote in > news:CAJ6cK1YVi3NQgdZOUdhAESf133pUkdazM1PkSP=p6xfayvo...@mail.gmail.com in > gmane.comp.python.general: > >> On 30 August 2011 13:31, Jack Trades <jacktradespub...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Rob Williscroft <r...@rtw.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> > That's brilliant and works flawlessly. ś˙Thank you very much! >>>> >>>> If an impementation (as you say up thread) can populate globals >>>> or locals with whatever they want, then how do you know that last >>>> item added was the function definition the user supplied ? > >> That's not an issue. The last statement that is executed will be the >> "def" statement. > > You don't know that, an implementation may for example set __bultins__ > to None, prior to returning, its not an unreasonable thing to do and > the docs don't say they can't.
I haven't studied the docs but I'm certain that such an implementation would break a lot of code. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
