when you try to send data to template like locals(), mako generates an error.

def GET(self):
  counter = random_count(1, 100)
  data = db.get_data(some_data)
  
  return render.index(**locals())

this code will generate error(it's perfectly legal on django). so i came up with this silly hack.

def mylocals(local):
  l = locals
  del l['self']
  return l

so when i'm gonna send data to a template i use

l = mylocals(locals())
return render.index(**l)

it works with this hack, i'd send data via return render.index(counter = counter, data = data) but why would anyone do this? it's more ease to write **locals().