> I'm not clear on what your real goal is, but if you just want a snapshot > of what locals() is just before exiting func, that could be done with > a byte-code-hacking decorator with usage looking something like > > #func defined before this > func_locals = {} > @getlocals(func, func_locals) > def probefunc(): pass > > which would make a probefunc function that would be identical to func > except that before exiting, it would do func_locals.update(locals()). > (you might want func_locals to be a list and do func_locals.append(locals()) > in case func is recursive and you are interested in the all the locals).
That's all good, at least if I knew how to poke with bytecodes ;-) What's a good starting point to look at ? By the way, the original problem was yet another property packager, which I posted as recipe at the cookbook: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/410698. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list