[Python-checkins] cpython (merge 3.2 -> default): Merge 3.2 closes issue 13557
terry.reedy
python-checkins at python.org
Sun Jul 8 23:53:54 CEST 2012
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/b47ae7a9e685
changeset: 78013:b47ae7a9e685
parent: 78010:5d43154d68a8
parent: 78012:ea670d71a36d
user: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
date: Sun Jul 08 17:52:58 2012 -0400
summary:
Merge 3.2 closes issue 13557
files:
Doc/library/functions.rst | 5 ++++-
Misc/NEWS | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -413,7 +413,10 @@
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
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@
* C frames that are garbage-collecting
* C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
+ execfile().
+
Tests
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