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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2008-05-02 02:25:09 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2008-05-02 02:25:09 (GMT)
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Fix a backwards-compatibility mistake where a new optional argument for
warnings.showwarning() was being used. This broke pre-existing replacements for the function since they didn't support the extra argument. Closes issue 2705.
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@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ Extension Modules
- Issue #1631171: Re-implement the 'warnings' module in C (the original Python
code has been kept as backup). This will allow for using the 'warning's
machinery in such places as the parser where use of pure Python code is not
- possible.
+ possible. Both the ``showarning()`` and ``formatwarning()`` gain an
+ optional 'line' argument which is not called by default for
+ backwards-compatibility reasons.
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