Feature or enhancement

Allow forglobals andlocals to be passed in as keyword arguments toexec andeval.

Pitch

exec andeval both can takeglobals andlocals as positional arguments.
The built-in functions documentation shows the argument defaults, andevery time I have the documentation open and am writing these, I default to keyword arguments, and it fails because the arguments are positional-only.

For functions like this that might only be present in a handful of places, kwargs give a good way to document what parameters each argument is referring to. I don't think that in a universe in which we were introducingeval/exec now that we would explicitly disallow kwargs.

Previous discussion

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Here is an implementation, which just consists in changing the argument clinic config and rerunning. I set up some very basic kwarg tests mostly to test the case of "locals provided but globals not provided", but fortunately the existing implementations already handled this cleanly!

Linked PRs

• gh-105879: Add support for keyword arguments to eval and exec #105885
• GH-105879: Note exec/eval keyword change in What's New #121831
• [3.13] GH-105879: Note exec/eval keyword change in What's New (GH-121831) #121852