From 6251df9068fc60b73085b8910d7faae4502152c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Perez <thingee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 01:11:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Updating HACKING to disallow the use of locals()

Change-Id: I7bf2720bdb0456274dc81a73d91296dff0e3fced
---
 HACKING.rst | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/HACKING.rst b/HACKING.rst
index eecb286b51f..f124e009533 100644
--- a/HACKING.rst
+++ b/HACKING.rst
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ General
     if not (X in Y or X in Z):  # OKAY, still better than all those 'not's
         pass
 
+- Do not use locals(). Example::
+
+    LOG.debug(_("volume %(vol_name)s: creating size %(vol_size)sG") %
+              locals()) # BAD
+
+    LOG.debug(_("volume %(vol_name)s: creating size %(vol_size)sG") %
+              {'vol_name': vol_name,
+               'vol_size': vol_size}) # OKAY
+
 
 Imports
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