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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-11-26 08:42:45 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k ........ r85530 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 17:32:05 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line Refrain from using inline suites. ........ r85532 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #7771: reference to documentation of dictview methods and operations. ........ r85533 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:07:41 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9683: remove broken dead code dealing with nested arguments removed from Py3k, and update the docs and docstrings accordingly. ........ r85534 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:19:43 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #9801: document how list and dict proxies created by Managers behave w.r.t. mutable items. ........ r85538 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:35:46 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #7303: add documentation for useful pkgutil functions and classes. ........ r85539 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:14 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line Fix issue references. ........ r85540 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:37 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #6798: fix wrong docs for the arguments to several trace events. ........ r85541 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:53:24 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #4968: updates to inspect.is* function docs. ........ r85542 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:01:15 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #7790: move table of struct_time members to the actual description of struct_time. ........ r85543 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #4785: document strict argument of JSONDecoder, plus add object_pairs_hook in the docstrings. ........ r85546 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:58:45 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml(). ........ r85547 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 20:00:35 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #6098: Refrain from claiming DOM level 3 conformance in minidom. ........ r85548 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 21:46:19 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line #10072: assume a bit less knowledge of the FTP protocol in the ftplib docs. ........
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@@ -746,8 +746,9 @@ always available.
``'return'``
A function (or other code block) is about to return. The local trace
- function is called; *arg* is the value that will be returned. The trace
- function's return value is ignored.
+ function is called; *arg* is the value that will be returned, or ``None``
+ if the event is caused by an exception being raised. The trace function's
+ return value is ignored.
``'exception'``
An exception has occurred. The local trace function is called; *arg* is a
@@ -759,10 +760,10 @@ always available.
a built-in. *arg* is the C function object.
``'c_return'``
- A C function has returned. *arg* is ``None``.
+ A C function has returned. *arg* is the C function object.
``'c_exception'``
- A C function has raised an exception. *arg* is ``None``.
+ A C function has raised an exception. *arg* is the C function object.
Note that as an exception is propagated down the chain of callers, an
``'exception'`` event is generated at each level.