On Fri, Sep 11, 2015, at 11:55, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah, that makes sense. It's writing into the dict that is created and > > returned by locals(), but not actually updating the frame locals which > > are the source of truth. > > Yeah... but it only makes sense to people who understand the > implementation. It's certainly not a logical and sane behaviour that > would be worth documenting and using.
What else would you document? Reading from them is a reasonable thing to do, and works. Writing to them is a reasonable thing to want to do, but won't work, so you need to document that it doesn't work. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
