New submission from Alex Vig:

The documentation for co_names in the inspect module is:

"tuple of names of local variables"

Local variable names are however in co_varnames while co_names contains global 
variable names. This description should read:

"tuple of names of global variables"

Relevant StackOverflow post here:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/45147260/1953800

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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 298545
nosy: Alex Vig, docs@python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Documentation error in inspect module
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7

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