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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2015-03-18 13:16:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2015-03-18 13:16:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 376658fa13f5c56a89a47ced0c5a88c43ce508b7 (patch) | |
| tree | cb6cee25097e95d512e66a35ccb2ba9f082c5fc5 /Lib/linecache.py | |
| parent | 93f0665fb612f08f3a4e6dc5d9d5350ddad6b653 (diff) | |
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Issue #11726: Fix linecache example in the doc
Use a Python source file (linecache.__file__) instead of /etc/passwd.
Modify also linecache docstrings to clarify the linecache is written to cache
Python source files, not any text files.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/linecache.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/linecache.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/linecache.py b/Lib/linecache.py index 02a9eb5..e505b03 100644 --- a/Lib/linecache.py +++ b/Lib/linecache.py @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -"""Cache lines from files. +"""Cache lines from Python source files. This is intended to read lines from modules imported -- hence if a filename is not found, it will look down the module search path for a file by @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def clearcache(): def getlines(filename, module_globals=None): - """Get the lines for a file from the cache. + """Get the lines for a Python source file from the cache. Update the cache if it doesn't contain an entry for this file already.""" if filename in cache: |