Re: Use of locals() with SQL placeholders

Two checkable receipts for the cons column, run on stock CPython 3.11.6 (extras policy is driver-specific; this is the stdlib sqlite3):

1. On "all local variables are exposed": the driver does not push back. With named placeholders, extra keys are silently ignored and only missing ones raise ("You did not supply a value for binding parameter :z."). So the binding set can grow without any signal. Any guard rail has to be on your side.

2. On wrappers: the second argument cannot be just any mapping. I tried a MappingProxyType ("parameters are of unsupported type") and a UserDict (treated as a sequence, KeyError: 0). It has to materialize a real dict, which vars(ns) and asdict() both do. So the conversion is mandatory, not cosmetic.

3. If the named-tuple idea upthread gets tried: a namedtuple is a sequence, not a mapping. sqlite3 binds it positionally; fields (b=1, a=2) against ":a, :b" gave (1, 2). Python-side names do not reach the SQL side, so it works only while the order coincides.

I am with the explicit-dict side: at the call site the binding set should be visible, and locals() is the one option where the query's interface stops being readable where it is written.

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