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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+Utilities for managing globals for the environment.
+"""
+
+def create_initial_globals(path):
+    """
+    Emulates a ``globals()`` call in a freshly loaded module.
+
+    The implementation of this function is likely to raise a couple of questions. If you read the
+    implementation and nothing bothered you, feel free to skip the rest of this docstring.
+
+    First, why is this function in its own module and not, say, in the same module of the other
+    environment-related functions? Second, why is it implemented in such a way that copies the
+    globals, then deletes the item that represents this function, and then changes some other
+    entries?
+
+    Well, these two questions can be answered with one (elaborate) explanation. If this function was
+    in the same module with the other environment-related functions, then we would have had to
+    delete more items in globals than just ``create_initial_globals``. That is because all of the
+    other function names would also be in globals, and since there is no built-in mechanism that
+    return the name of the user-defined objects, this approach is quite an overkill.
+
+    *But why do we rely on the copy-existing-globals-and-delete-entries method, when it seems to
+    force us to put ``create_initial_globals`` in its own file?*
+
+    Well, because there is no easier method of creating globals of a newly loaded module.
+
+    *How about hard coding a ``globals`` dict? It seems that there are very few entries:
+    ``__doc__``, ``__file__``, ``__name__``, ``__package__`` (but don't forget ``__builtins__``).*
+
+    That would be coupling our implementation to a specific ``globals`` implementation. What if
+    ``globals`` were to change?
+    """
+    copied_globals = globals().copy()
+    copied_globals.update({
+        '__doc__': 'Dynamically executed script',
+        '__file__': path,
+        '__name__': '__main__',
+        '__package__': None
+    })
+    del copied_globals[create_initial_globals.__name__]
+    return copied_globals