Commit 376658fa authored by Victor Stinner's avatar Victor Stinner

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.
parent 93f0665f
......@@ -51,5 +51,5 @@ 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'
"""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:
......
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