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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2012-07-08 21:35:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2012-07-08 21:35:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 45ed012433443cc9d79729b91f01f4a5ffe28ba6 (patch) | |
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Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
execfile().
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 05b78a0..ce22b67 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -993,6 +993,9 @@ current scope. If only the first expression after :keyword:`in` is specified, it should be a dictionary, which will be used for both the global and the local variables. If two expressions are given, they are used for the global and local variables, respectively. If provided, *locals* can be any mapping object. +Remember that at module level, globals and locals are the same dictionary. If +two separate objects are given as *globals* and *locals*, the code will be +executed as if it were embedded in a class definition. .. versionchanged:: 2.4 Formerly, *locals* was required to be a dictionary. |