From: Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy (శ్రీనివాస్  రెడ్డి తాటిపర్తి) <thatiparthysreenivas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 17:58:50 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: bpo-32413: Add documentation that at the module level, locals(), globals() are the... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a4~269
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c5fa5af8a95f25119e45e40a4ed8183d06f4a5b;p=python

bpo-32413: Add documentation that at the module level, locals(), globals() are the  same dictionary (GH-5004)



https://bugs.python.org/issue32413
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6342ee3bb0..613e4f74ac 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -843,7 +843,8 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
    Update and return a dictionary representing the current local symbol table.
    Free variables are returned by :func:`locals` when it is called in function
-   blocks, but not in class blocks.
+   blocks, but not in class blocks. Note that at the module level, :func:`locals`
+   and :func:`globals` are the same dictionary.
 
    .. note::
       The contents of this dictionary should not be modified; changes may not