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If you're interested in this sort of thing, you might also check out https://github.com/llllllllll/codetransformer, which is a general-purpose library for doing these sorts of shenanigans in an almost-sane way. (Disclaimer: I'm one of the library authors).

As an example, I've got a PR open right now that lets you do things like:

    @mutable_locals
    def f():
        out = []
        x = 1
        out.append(x)
        locals().update({'x': 2, 'y': 3})
        out.append(x)
        out.append(y)
        return out

    assert f() == [1, 2, 3]

which works using a combination of ctypes hackery and replacing all LOAD_FAST instructions with appropriately-resolved LOAD_NAME instructions.