Some time ago I wrote that there was no way tochange a function's local variables from outside it (well, specificallytheir name bindings ). As it turns out, I'm wrong;there is one way to do it by going in the back door, although it's nota useful way.

There is specific code in CPython that allows a trace function to completelyalter a function's local variables and even function arguments; this (C)code specifically reloads the internal interpreter version of

The first change we made in the evolution of our mail system was to add a separate machine to be ourexternal mail gateway, putting it in front of our central mailmachine for outside email. We did this for two reasons: first, wewanted to introduce some sort of system-wide anti-spam features , and second, the central mail machine washeavily overloaded by directly handling external email (partly becauseit had a very old MTA that had an unfortunately heavyweight way ofhandling incoming connections and partly because it