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

[Brett Cannon]

Change by Brett Cannon :


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

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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)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ef516d11c1a0f885dba0aba8cf5366502077cdd4


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

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

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

[Martin Panter]

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`.

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

[Srinivas Reddy T]

Srinivas  Reddy T  added the comment:

Done. exec(...)'s  documentation covers raymond's comment.

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

[Srinivas Reddy T]

Change by Srinivas  Reddy T :


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

[Raymond Hettinger]

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 called with 
only one dictionary, that dict is used for both locals and globals.

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

[Raymond Hettinger]

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

[Steven D'Aprano]

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().

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#locals

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status: open
title: Document that locals() may return globals()
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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