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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2015-03-20 15:32:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2015-03-20 15:32:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 6faa62445f2f876d1f264ab4006343c8544e15b8 (patch) | |
| tree | b22c4dc6e5aa44aadc32a86a55e63d73be9c1e63 /Doc/library/linecache.rst | |
| parent | 8291b5e4f78ec5c8f606426b3e03f4c2aa6da728 (diff) | |
| parent | 63998a3520ac4c2217946baf99574d9e6a6a959d (diff) | |
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Merge: #11726: Make linecache docs reflect that all files are treated the same.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/linecache.rst b/Doc/library/linecache.rst index 2d2a33f..6c92cc5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/linecache.rst +++ b/Doc/library/linecache.rst @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ attempting to optimize internally, using a cache, the common case where many lines are read from a single file. This is used by the :mod:`traceback` module to retrieve source lines for inclusion in the formatted traceback. -The :func:`tokenize.open` function is used to open Python source files. This +The :func:`tokenize.open` function is used to open files. This function uses :func:`tokenize.detect_encoding` to get the encoding of the -Python source file. +file; in the absence of an encoding token, the file encoding defaults to UTF-8. The :mod:`linecache` module defines the following functions: |