From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:45:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added a stronger warning about changing the dictionary returned by
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2a1~452
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b7f6688d276c73a779ee9df7db41afe418987ca;p=python

Added a stronger warning about changing the dictionary returned by
locals().
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index 451c1a8e27..3104763b38 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -334,8 +334,9 @@ returns \code{['a', 'b', 'c']} and \code{list( (1, 2, 3) )} returns
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{locals}{}
 Return a dictionary representing the current local symbol table.
-Inside a function, modifying this dictionary does not always have the
-desired effect.
+\strong{Warning:} the contents of this dictionary should not be
+modified; changes may not affect the values of local variables used by 
+the interpreter.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{long}{x}