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Wed Jul 15 02:41:44 CEST 2015 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-July/140756.html

On 15 July 2015 at 05:44, Matthew Keeter <matt.j.keeter at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more data point:
> On the Python side, exec has documentation
> (https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#exec)
> that nicely reflects what’s going on in the frame code (where globals must
> be a dict but locals can be
> any mapping object).

I was about to post about that. exec used to also require that locals
be exactly a dictionary, so my suspicion is that we simply missed
updating the PyRun_SimpleString docs when the constraint was removed
from the underlying frame execution code.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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