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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 3fcd6941c2..b6252e629b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -417,7 +417,10 @@ 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 @@ -380,14 +380,14 @@ Build Documentation ------------- +- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or + execfile(). + - Issue #8799: Fix and improve the threading.Condition documentation. - Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation. -Documentation -------------- - - Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial. Tools/Demos |