Flavio enlightened us with:
> Can anyone tell me why, if the following code works, I should not do
> this?
>
> def fun(a=1,b=2,**args):
>
> print 'locals:',locals()
> locals().update(args)
> print locals()
Because it's very, very, very insecure. What would happen if someone
found a way to call that function? It could replace any name in the
locals dictionary, including functions from __builtins__. In other
words: probably the whole program could be taken over by other code by
just one call to that function.
Sybren
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