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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1995-07-07 23:06:33 (GMT)
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\end{description}
-The built-in function \verb@vars()@ returns a dictionary representing
-the current local name space. The effect of modifications to this
-dictionary on the name space are undefined.%
-\footnote{The current implementation returns the dictionary actually
+The built-in functions \verb@globals()@ and \verb@locals()@ returns a
+dictionary representing the current global and local name space,
+respectively. The effect of modifications to this dictionary on the
+name space are undefined.%
+\footnote{The current implementations return the dictionary actually
used to implement the name space, {\em except} for functions, where
the optimizer may cause the local name space to be implemented
-differently.}
+differently, and \verb@locals()@ returns a read-only dictionary.}
\section{Exceptions}