From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:32:29 +0000 (-0800) Subject: bpo-19737: Improved the documentation for globals (GH-29823) (GH-30042) X-Git-Tag: v3.9.10~68 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9299e3a39c3b1dd7d5db0d88080249c2dab3070f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-19737: Improved the documentation for globals (GH-29823) (GH-30042) Co-authored-by: Alex Waygood Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa (cherry picked from commit 4fe5585240f64c3d14eb635ff82b163f92074b3a) Co-authored-by: 180909 <734461790@qq.com> --- diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 4acbc67b2d69..4aa900c54771 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -686,9 +686,9 @@ 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 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a3e16c9fdd0e --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-11-28-22-43-21.bpo-19737.cOOubB.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Update the documentation for the :func:`globals` function.