On Sep 13, 8:18 pm, Steven D'Aprano
<ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:06:51 -0700, Sean DiZazzo wrote:
> > I have never used a call to "locals()" in my code. Can you show me a
> > use case where it is valuable and Pythonic?
>
> grep is your friend:
>
> $ grep "locals()" /usr/lib/python2.5/*.py
> /usr/lib/python2.5/decimal.py: for name, val in locals().items():
> /usr/lib/python2.5/doctest.py: return __import__(module, globals(),
> locals(), ["*"])
> /usr/lib/python2.5/profile.py: p.runctx('f(m)', globals(), locals())
> /usr/lib/python2.5/pydoc.py: docloc = '<br><a
> href="%(docloc)s">Module Docs</a>' % locals()
> /usr/lib/python2.5/smtpd.py: mod = __import__(classname[:lastdot],
> globals(), locals(), [""])
>
> --
> Steven
That is not a use case. I still don't understand!
PS. I know how to use grep.
~Sean
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