Comments on: execution locals: better than thread locals/globals

By: holger krekel

holger krekel — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:51:39 +0000

_getlocals() is not meant for usage from the outside, maybe it could be hidden better.

Aleksey — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:38:57 +0000

Thank for amaizing and useful module.
May I suggest you to restrict xlocal.__setitem__ and xlocal.__delitem__ access to avoid situations like this:

from xlocal import xlocal

local = xlocal()
with local(x=None):
local._getlocals().__setitem__(‘x’, True)
…

holger krekel — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:12:29 +0000

Indeed, Contextual looks similar but more convoluted. “xlocal” aims to be minimal, not requiring subclassing etc. Thanks for the reference.

holger krekel — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:10:12 +0000

Thanks, fixed.

jma — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:33:27 +0000

“as defined at the invoking with xcurrent(x=42) statement”

It looks like you changed a 3 to a 42 (or vice versa).

gsk — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:18:10 +0000

From a (very) quick look seems like an independent reinvention of contextual: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Contextual