Python dictionary comprehension using locals() gives KeyError

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A dict comprehension has its own namespace, and locals() in that namespace has no a. Technically speaking, everything but the initial iterable for the outermost iterable (here ["a"]) is run almost as a nested function with the outermost iterable passed in as an argument.

Your code works if you used globals() instead, or created a reference to the locals() dictionary outside of the dict comprehension:

l = locals()
print { key: l[key] for key in ["a"] }

Demo:

>>> a = 1
>>> l = locals()
>>> { key: l[key] for key in ["a"] }
{'a': 1}
>>> { key: globals()[key] for key in ["a"] }
{'a': 1}

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