From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:42:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Rename 'locals' argument to top-level interact() function to 'local'
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.2b1~308
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d90ae19b92b6172f5b1aceb34c5c18ca28144ca7;p=python

Rename 'locals' argument to top-level interact() function to 'local'
for b/w compatibility with 1.5.1.
---

diff --git a/Lib/code.py b/Lib/code.py
index 3554b35de9..94e7777dc9 100644
--- a/Lib/code.py
+++ b/Lib/code.py
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ class InteractiveConsole(InteractiveInterpreter):
         return raw_input(prompt)
 
 
-def interact(banner=None, readfunc=None, locals=None):
+def interact(banner=None, readfunc=None, local=None):
     """Closely emulate the interactive Python interpreter.
 
     This is a backwards compatible interface to the InteractiveConsole
@@ -351,10 +351,10 @@ def interact(banner=None, readfunc=None, locals=None):
 
     banner -- passed to InteractiveConsole.interact()
     readfunc -- if not None, replaces InteractiveConsole.raw_input()
-    locals -- passed to InteractiveInterpreter.__init__()
+    local -- passed to InteractiveInterpreter.__init__()
 
     """
-    console = InteractiveConsole(locals)
+    console = InteractiveConsole(local)
     if readfunc is not None:
         console.raw_input = readfunc
     else: