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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-06-29 17:08:41 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>1999-06-29 17:08:41 (GMT)
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Improve description of the example.
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\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