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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-06-29 17:08:41 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 1999-06-29 17:08:41 (GMT) |
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Improve description of the example.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtraceback.tex b/Doc/lib/libtraceback.tex index 735b8de..20dc019 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtraceback.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtraceback.tex @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ \section{\module{traceback} --- - Print or retrieve a stack traceback.} -\declaremodule{standard}{traceback} + Print or retrieve a stack traceback} +\declaremodule{standard}{traceback} \modulesynopsis{Print or retrieve a stack traceback.} - This module provides a standard interface to extract, format and print stack traces of Python programs. It exactly mimics the behavior of the Python interpreter when it prints a stack trace. This is useful @@ -125,7 +124,13 @@ field is not updated correctly; this function calculates the correct value. \end{funcdesc} -A simple example follows: + +\subsection{Traceback Example \label{traceback-example}} + +This simple example implements a basic read-eval-print loop, similar +to (but less useful than) the standard Python interactive interpreter +loop. For a more complete implementation of the interpreter loop, +refer to the \refmodule{code} module. \begin{verbatim} import sys, traceback |