locals() — requests Function Reference

Architecture documentation for the locals() function in packages.py from the requests codebase.

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Source Code

src/requests/packages.py lines 9–14

    locals()[package] = __import__(package)
    # This traversal is apparently necessary such that the identities are
    # preserved (requests.packages.urllib3.* is urllib3.*)
    for mod in list(sys.modules):
        if mod == package or mod.startswith(f"{package}."):
            sys.modules[f"requests.packages.{mod}"] = sys.modules[mod]