[issue4447] exec inside a function

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> added the comment:

It is "valid" Python 3 and the lack of an effect on the local is correct.

>From Python 3 on, "exec" is a function and therefore lacks the special
magic properties it had in Python 2 that made it possible execute the
code "as if it just was written there".

In effect, what exec() modifies here is similar to what locals()
returns: a mere copy of the local namespace.

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nosy: +georg.brandl
resolution:  -> wont fix
status: open -> closed

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