Print all local variables accessible to the current scope in Lua

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Published on 2010-05-14T13:46:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 14:04 UTC
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I know how to print "all" global variables using the following code

for k,v in pairs(_G) do
    print("Global key", k, "value", v)
end

So my question is how to do that for all variables that are accessible from the currently executing function, something that can do what locals() does for Python.

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