import vs inserting code

[Skaperen]

i have the understanding that a function can access the globals() namespace on its own. of course, if the function is defined to have it passed, the caller could fake it by creating a dictionary (maybe populating it) and passing that, instead of globals().

the kind of use cases i was considering is where the main code is doing a variety of different variable settings, then for each place doing the same exact calculations that need to work with local variables (including setting some). many time capture a block of code (^u4^k^y in emacs, to capture 4 lines) and drop it (^y in emacs, in each place) in a few other places. those 4 lines modify 4 local variables. i do not want a function to be trying to pass a tuple or dict back. i prefer to keep it all simple. i might like to have a "deflocal" feature that defines a function that shares the locals() namespace with the code that defines it and calls it.