# PEP 558: Defined semantics for locals()

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-558-defined-semantics-for-locals/2936>\
**Category:** PEPs\
**Created:** [December 31, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-558-defined-semantics-for-locals/2936 "2019-12-31T04:10:14Z")\
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Bikeshedding, but can we have the new C API be GetLocalsSnapshot instead of GetPyLocals? Just to save the documentation lookup to figure out what’s so “Py” about it?

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