Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> added the comment: Yes, the dictionary will always contain "a" afterwards.
However, a cleaner way would be to use locals().copy(), or, if you don't need current locals in the exec'd string, just a fresh dict. In scopes not using the optimized locals, there may be some other effects when using the dict returned by locals() directly: * in module scopes, the dictionary returned by locals() is the same as the globals() one * in class scopes, the locals() dict is actually the local scope of the class _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4831> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
