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DOCS: fix error in exec namespace note (pythongh-119378)
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When updating the new exec note added in pythongh-119235 as part of the
PEP 667 general docs PR, I suggested a workaround that isn't valid.

The first half of the note is still reasonable, so just omit the invalid text.
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ncoghlan authored and estyxx committed Jul 17, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -623,10 +623,6 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
means functions and classes defined in the executed code will not be able
to access variables assigned at the top level (as the "top level"
variables are treated as class variables in a class definition).
Passing a :class:`collections.ChainMap` instance as *globals* allows name
lookups to be chained across multiple mappings without triggering this
behaviour. Values assigned to top level names in the executed code can be
retrieved by passing an empty dictionary as the first entry in the chain.

If the *globals* dictionary does not contain a value for the key
``__builtins__``, a reference to the dictionary of the built-in module
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