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This is my patch [ 587993 ] SET_LINENO killer Remove SET_LINENO. Tracing is now supported by inspecting co_lnotab. Many sundry changes to document and adapt to this change.
author Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>
date Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:59:02 +0000
parents 6673171fc37e
children 97b28170634c
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--- a/Doc/lib/libtraceback.tex	Thu Aug 15 14:01:14 2002 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtraceback.tex	Thu Aug 15 14:59:02 2002 +0000
@@ -118,10 +118,10 @@
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{tb_lineno}{tb}
 This function returns the current line number set in the traceback
-object.  This is normally the same as the \code{\var{tb}.tb_lineno}
-field of the object, but when optimization is used (the -O flag) this
-field is not updated correctly; this function calculates the correct
-value.
+object.  This function was necessary because in versions of Python
+prior to 2.3 when the \programopt{O} flag was passed to Python the
+\code{\var{tb}.tb_lineno} was not updated correctly.  This function
+has no use in versions past 2.3.
 \end{funcdesc}