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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-12-11 00:32:13 (GMT) |
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bpo-19737: Improved the documentation for globals (GH-29823) (GH-30041)
Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
(cherry picked from commit 4fe5585240f64c3d14eb635ff82b163f92074b3a)
Co-authored-by: 180909 <734461790@qq.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 307d679..a117d30 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -733,9 +733,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: globals() - Return a dictionary representing the current global symbol table. This is always - the dictionary of the current module (inside a function or method, this is the - module where it is defined, not the module from which it is called). + Return the dictionary implementing the current module namespace. For code within + functions, this is set when the function is defined and remains the same + regardless of where the function is called. .. function:: hasattr(object, name) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-28-22-43-21.bpo-19737.cOOubB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-28-22-43-21.bpo-19737.cOOubB.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3e16c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-28-22-43-21.bpo-19737.cOOubB.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Update the documentation for the :func:`globals` function. |