[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

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[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

miss-islington added the comment: New changeset ef516d11c1a0f885dba0aba8cf5366502077cdd4 by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7': bpo-32413: Add documentation that at the module level, locals(), globals() are the same dictionary (GH-5004)

[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

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[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

Martin Panter added the comment: FWIW a few years ago I wrote a patch for Issue 17546 that documents three personalities of “locals”, including: * At the module level, the dictionary returned is the global symbol table, also returned by :func:`globals`. --

[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

Srinivas Reddy T added the comment: Done. exec(...)'s documentation covers raymond's comment. -- nosy: +thatiparthy ___ Python tracker

[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

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[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: FWIW, this isn't a quirk of how locals() works. Instead, it reflects the more interesting reality that at the top level, locals and globals *are* the same dictionary. Also, that is not the only occurrence -- if exec() is

[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

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[issue32413] Document that locals() may return globals()

New submission from Steven D'Aprano : The obvious documentation for locals() fails to mention that when called from the top level of a module (outside of a function or class body) it returns the same dict as globals().