[issue8824] Improve documentation of exec

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I decided that the alternate addition in #13557 is enough. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed versions: -Python 2.7 ___ Python tracker

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Mark Dickinson added the comment: Okay; sorry about that. Reopening. -- resolution: duplicate -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker ___ _

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I suggested more change here than I committed in #13557. I would like to think about the extra a bit more. The issue about def in exec just came up again on python-list, but I do not really like the third sentence I suggested. -- assignee: docs@python

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Mark Dickinson added the comment: Should this be closed as a duplicate of issue #13557? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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Jordan Stadler added the comment: I've updated the 3.x patch, should be correct now. I also updated the 2.x patch to use ``in``. :keyword:`in` was used in an earlier part of the paragraph I modified, so I have changed both for consistency. This is the paragraph before modification: " In al

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Ezio Melotti added the comment: In 3.x exec is a function, so the reference to 'in' should be removed/updated. On 2.x it might be better to just use ``in`` instead of :keyword:`in`, because the latter probably links to the 'in' operator that checks for containment. -- nosy: +ezio.mel

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Jordan Stadler added the comment: Patches for 2.x and 3.x documentation related to 'exec'. 2.x Provides more information about scopes when using additional expressions for 'exec'. 2.x documentation for 'exec' is found in reference/simple_stmts. 3.x Provides more information about scopes

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Jordan Stadler added the comment: I'm going to update the documentation to include the scope information. Should be done within a day. -- nosy: +jstadler ___ Python tracker ___

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Terry J. Reedy added the comment: To be super-clear, consider adding one more sentence, something like "The result for code with def statements or lambda expressions may be different than it would be if the implied context were a function rather than a class." --

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New submission from Terry J. Reedy : This doc improvement suggestion is inspired by #991196 (and subsequent duplicates) and the current discussion on py-dev in the thread 'variable name resolution in exec is incorrect' (which is not a correct claim). I believe there is consensus that the doc f