Arnaud Delobelle <arno...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> exec "a=2" in d > assigning 2 to 'a' > >>> d['a'] > 2 > > >>> exec "global a; a = 3" in d > >>> d['a'] > 3
Oooh, now isn't that an interesting wrinkle? I've been careful (without drawing attention) to restrict my arguments to variables inside functions, largely because Python's global scopes work completely differently. (Python's global scopes work similarly to traditional Lisp and Scheme, which isn't at all objectionable, but it's not the only way of managing global scopes. Queinnec's Lisp In Small Pieces describes others.) > So even if the globals() dictionary is custom, its __setitem__ method is > *not* called. Fascinating. Thank you. -- [mdw] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
