[New-bugs-announce] [issue22057] The doc say all globals are copied on eval(), but only __builtins__ is copied

[Alon Mishne]

New submission from Alon Mishne:

According to the documentation of eval():

> If the globals dictionary is present and lacks '__builtins__', the current globals are copied into globals before expression is parsed.

However in practice only the __builtins__ items are copied, see:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Python/bltinmodule.c#l655

See http://stackoverflow.com/q/24934908/242762

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 223837
nosy: amishne, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: The doc say all globals are copied on eval(), but only __builtins__ is copied
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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