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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/linecache.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/linecache.py | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/linecache.rst b/Doc/library/linecache.rst index 52e3339..2d2a33f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/linecache.rst +++ b/Doc/library/linecache.rst @@ -59,5 +59,5 @@ The :mod:`linecache` module defines the following functions: Example:: >>> import linecache - >>> linecache.getline('/etc/passwd', 4) - 'sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh\n' + >>> linecache.getline(linecache.__file__, 8) + 'import sys\n' diff --git a/Lib/linecache.py b/Lib/linecache.py index 33b0af7..6e65c37 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 @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ 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: |