On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srku...@mail.de> wrote: > On 18.03.2016 15:48, Ian Kelly wrote: >> >> Well I didn't design it, so I'm not really sure. But it could be argued >> that the defaults are intrinsic to the function declaration, not the code >> object, as not all code objects even have arguments. It also makes it >> straight-forward to create a new function that uses the same code but with >> different defaults or globals. > > > It occurred to me after I sent that email. > > However, changing globals is not possible.
Well it may not work for your case, but in general you can do: from types import FunctionType new_function = FunctionType(old_function.__code__, new_globals, ...) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list