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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-07-02 06:41:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-07-02 06:41:07 (GMT) |
| commit | 214b1c3aaea3e83302df9ea37a37b3c7548b92b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ddeda01308aec48c7edda3188a4aad84dc9435b /Doc/lib | |
| parent | 78bace7442bb89aa005950a1e37f71d4704d4cb6 (diff) | |
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SF Bug #215126: Over restricted type checking on eval() function
The builtin eval() function now accepts any mapping for the locals argument.
Time sensitive steps guarded by PyDict_CheckExact() to keep from slowing
down the normal case. My timings so no measurable impact.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index fa9cd55..0c5b0e3 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -291,8 +291,12 @@ class C: \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{eval}{expression\optional{, globals\optional{, locals}}} - The arguments are a string and two optional dictionaries. The - \var{expression} argument is parsed and evaluated as a Python + The arguments are a string and optional globals and locals. If provided, + \var{globals} must be a dictionary. If provided, \var{locals} can be + any mapping object. \versionchanged[formerly \var{locals} was required + to be a dictionary]{2.4} + + The \var{expression} argument is parsed and evaluated as a Python expression (technically speaking, a condition list) using the \var{globals} and \var{locals} dictionaries as global and local name space. If the \var{globals} dictionary is present and lacks |