Issue #16808: inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple.

Patch by Daniel Shahaf.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/inspect.rst b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
index 359f833..2e209eb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/inspect.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/inspect.rst
@@ -881,11 +881,17 @@ Classes and functions
 The interpreter stack
 ---------------------
 
-When the following functions return "frame records," each record is a tuple of
-six items: the frame object, the filename, the line number of the current line,
+When the following functions return "frame records," each record is a
+:term:`named tuple`
+``FrameInfo(frame, filename, lineno, function, code_context, index)``.
+The tuple contains the frame object, the filename, the line number of the
+current line,
 the function name, a list of lines of context from the source code, and the
 index of the current line within that list.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.5
+   Return a named tuple instead of a tuple.
+
 .. note::
 
    Keeping references to frame objects, as found in the first element of the frame