bpo-19737: Improved the documentation for globals (GH-29823)

Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood <Alex.Waygood@Gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
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@@ -733,9 +733,9 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
 .. function:: globals()
 
-   Return a dictionary representing the current global symbol table. This is always
-   the dictionary of the current module (inside a function or method, this is the
-   module where it is defined, not the module from which it is called).
+   Return the dictionary implementing the current module namespace. For code within
+   functions, this is set when the function is defined and remains the same
+   regardless of where the function is called.
 
 
 .. function:: hasattr(object, name)

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-28-22-43-21.bpo-19737.cOOubB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-28-22-43-21.bpo-19737.cOOubB.rst
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+Update the documentation for the :func:`globals` function.