Why are both locals() and globals() set?

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On 2017-12-23 04:01, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, The following example shows that both locals() and globals() are
> updated when x and f are defined. Shouldn't they be considered and
> global variable and functions only? Why does it make sense to set
> locals() as well? Thanks.
> 
It's "local" in the sense that it's in the current scope, so in a 
function it's local to that function, and in the main code of a module 
it's local to that module as well as being "global".

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