From 059b9ea5ac98f432e41b05d1fa5aab4ffa22df4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anthony Shaw Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 01:51:58 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-31968: Documentation -- add clarification on the globals dict for exec() (GH-13140) --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 7170a781720..425a985320f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. :func:`exec` function. The return value is ``None``. In all cases, if the optional parts are omitted, the code is executed in the - current scope. If only *globals* is provided, it must be a dictionary, which + current scope. If only *globals* is provided, it must be a dictionary + (and not a subclass of dictionary), which will be used for both the global and the local variables. If *globals* and *locals* are given, they are used for the global and local variables, respectively. If provided, *locals* can be any mapping object. Remember