Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In my opinion, vague ideas like this one should go to python-ideas first.
I agree with David that globals() and locals() are separate issues. Since there have been and perhaps still are locals() doc issues, I will take this one to be about 'globals()'. A 'symbol table' is a mapping between 'symbols' and 'values'. I presume such were originally implemented as a concrete list of pairs, but the term is now is an abstraction. In the Python context, I think 'namespace' would be a better word, but I would not make the change without getting other opinions, such as on python-ideas. The [...] that you omitted says "This is always the dictionary of the current module (...)." I cannot interpret 'is' to mean a copy. So I think "[concrete] dictionary represents [abstract] symbol table [namespace]" is fine. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19737> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
