Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 6 01:37:11 CEST 2010

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Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Steve Bonner <pythonsteve <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>What do we think of adding a built-in nonlocals() function that would
>>be similar to globals() and locals()?
> 
> These scopes don't have parallel capabilities:

Maybe it would be better to deprecate globals() and locals()
and replace them with another function called something like
scope(). It would return a mapping object that looks up
names in the current scope. It could also improve on locals()
by being writable.

-- 
Greg

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