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I'm not sure exactly, but my point is that a program transformation can do it. However, no transformation can change an import to other operations while perserv

I'm not sure exactly, but my point is that a program transformation can do it. However, no transformation can change an import to other operations while perserving semantics. Just for fun, this seems to work: (locals().pop('x', None), locals().setdefault('x', y))[1]

yorwba 8y ago
That only works at top-level scope, where locals() == globals(). Inside a function, changing the dict returned by locals() doesn't actually change the variable.