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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2012-07-08 21:52:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2012-07-08 21:52:58 (GMT) |
| commit | dd445e8ece08b8bf62cb1a6d6aab203eb9b3f535 (patch) | |
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| parent | 1ced17dfe9ee17d35badd1dacc38cc12c1158c8c (diff) | |
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Merge 3.2 closes issue 13557
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 5254299..1cbe34a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -413,7 +413,10 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. current scope. If only *globals* is provided, it must be a dictionary, which will be used for both the global and the local variables. If *globals* and *locals* are given, they are used for the global and local variables, - respectively. If provided, *locals* can be any mapping object. + respectively. If provided, *locals* can be any mapping object. Remember + that at module level, globals and locals are the same dictionary. If exec + gets two separate objects as *globals* and *locals*, the code will be + executed as if it were embedded in a class definition. If the *globals* dictionary does not contain a value for the key ``__builtins__``, a reference to the dictionary of the built-in module |