Why can "exec ... in d" delete items from d?

[Christopher A. Craig]

"Troels Therkelsen" <t_therkelsen at hotmail.com> writes:

> Have I stumbled unto an esoteric bug, or is this just an undocumented
> feature of exec?

Hmm, I'm not sure which it is, but it's not the bug/undocumented
feature you think it is.  The documentation specifies that the
namespaces should be dictionaries, not mapping types or subclasses of
dictionaries.  So when you passed it something that was subclassed
from dict it ran PyDict_Check() on it and then, when it passed,
treated it like a native dict.

If there is a bug, it is that exec should have refused to use your
non-dict like it would a mapping not subclassed from dict.

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