From 45ed012433443cc9d79729b91f01f4a5ffe28ba6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Terry Jan Reedy Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 17:35:26 -0400 Subject: Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or execfile(). --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 5 ++++- Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst | 3 +++ Misc/NEWS | 4 +++- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 54baecf..a324e51 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -430,7 +430,10 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. The arguments are a file name and two optional dictionaries. The file is parsed and evaluated as a sequence of Python statements (similarly to a module) using the *globals* and *locals* dictionaries as global and local namespace. If - provided, *locals* can be any mapping object. + provided, *locals* can be any mapping object. Remember that at module level, + globals and locals are the same dictionary. If two separate objects are + passed 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. 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. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index c5e2e92..52439fe 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -284,7 +284,9 @@ Build - Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin. Documentation -------------- + +- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or + execfile(). - Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial. -- cgit v0.12