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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/readline.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2017-10-08-23-02-14.bpo-31537.SiFNM8.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/readline.rst b/Doc/library/readline.rst index 54c54b4..837816e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/readline.rst +++ b/Doc/library/readline.rst @@ -312,13 +312,13 @@ sessions, by only appending the new history. :: try: readline.read_history_file(histfile) - h_len = readline.get_history_length() + h_len = readline.get_current_history_length() except FileNotFoundError: open(histfile, 'wb').close() h_len = 0 def save(prev_h_len, histfile): - new_h_len = readline.get_history_length() + new_h_len = readline.get_current_history_length() readline.set_history_length(1000) readline.append_history_file(new_h_len - prev_h_len, histfile) atexit.register(save, h_len, histfile) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2017-10-08-23-02-14.bpo-31537.SiFNM8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2017-10-08-23-02-14.bpo-31537.SiFNM8.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9244d7e --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2017-10-08-23-02-14.bpo-31537.SiFNM8.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Fix incorrect usage of ``get_history_length`` in readline documentation +example code. Patch by Brad Smith. |