How to Use locals() Function in PythonPython Basics

The locals() function returns the dictionary of all local variables in the current scope.

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

def temp(arg):
    a = 1
    print (locals())

temp(5)

Output:

{'a': 1, 'arg': 5}

locals()

The method doesn’t take any parameters.

It returns the dictionary of local variables.