On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 05:52:16PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> def test():
>> a = 1
>> b = 2
>> vars = {key: locals()[key] for key in locals()}
>> return vars
>>
>> What would your intuition say? Should this be equivalent to dict(locals()) ?
>
> That example is so elegant it makes me want to cry.
>
> And not just because you shadowed the vars() builtin *wink*
It gets funnier with nested loops. Or scarier. I've lost the ability
to distinguish those two.
def test():
spam = 1
ham = 2
vars = [key1+key2 for key1 in locals() for key2 in locals()]
return vars
Wanna guess what that's gonna return?
ChrisA
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