I notice code.interact() in Python 2.6 has a parameter for locals but not globals. Should it?
Ultimately, *exec* is used underneath so I don't see a technical reason why it couldn't add a global parameter. Also, although one could pass in a dictionary that is the merger or update() of locals() and globals(), this has a couple of downsides. First, if the intention is to allow update of local and global variables, combining the two into a single dictionary wreaks havoc. Even if one doesn't care about this, when the underlying *exec* is performed it will see different and wrong values for the functions locals() and globals() among other problems of this kind.
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