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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-08-03 05:17:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2004-08-03 05:17:58 +0000 |
| commit | 70fcdb8be0ef544432b8bd48a0abd0475f0fb778 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f26ba6f61543a000f0843510afaf2418bcf0886 /Doc/ref/ref6.tex | |
| parent | a57ec93b934b1c04ab837aa541fc7101c6bc0055 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-70fcdb8be0ef544432b8bd48a0abd0475f0fb778.tar.gz | |
Document general mappings for the locals argument for exec and execfile().
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex index a389176eee..1017acaa47 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex @@ -873,8 +873,9 @@ In all cases, if the optional parts are omitted, the code is executed in the 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, -both must be dictionaries and they are used for the global and local -variables, respectively. +they are used for the global and local variables, respectively. +If provided, \var{locals} can be any mapping object. +\versionchanged[formerly \var{locals} was required to be a dictionary]{2.4} As a side effect, an implementation may insert additional keys into the dictionaries given besides those corresponding to variable names |