[Pyrex] Using eval in Pyrex

[Greg Ewing]

Jim Kleckner wrote:
> I ported some Python code that uses eval to programmatically access 
> local variables and obviously it breaks.  What approach would you recommend?

Keep the relevant variables in a dict and pass it
in to eval as an explicit namespace.

It's completely impossible to get eval to access
the real locals of a Pyrex function, since they're
C variables living in a C stack frame.

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