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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/py_compile.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst index 4fba4cb..69b93a3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/py_compile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/py_compile.rst @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ byte-code cache files in the directory containing the source code. in ``.pyc``. For example, if *file* is ``/foo/bar/baz.py`` *cfile* will default to ``/foo/bar/__pycache__/baz.cpython-32.pyc`` for Python 3.2. If *dfile* is - specified, it is used as the name of the source file in error messages - instead of *file*. If *doraise* is true, a :exc:`PyCompileError` is raised + specified, it is used instead of *file* as the name of the source file from + which source lines are obtained for display in exception tracebacks. + If *doraise* is true, a :exc:`PyCompileError` is raised when an error is encountered while compiling *file*. If *doraise* is false (the default), an error string is written to ``sys.stderr``, but no exception is raised. This function returns the path to byte-compiled file, i.e. |