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author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2017-02-04 15:05:40 -0800 |
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committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2017-02-04 15:05:40 -0800 |
commit | b2fa705fd3887c326e811c418469c784353027f4 (patch) | |
tree | b3428f73de91453edbfd4df1a5d4a212d182eb44 /Doc/library/traceback.rst | |
parent | 134e58fd3aaa2e91390041e143f3f0a21a60142b (diff) | |
parent | b53654b6dbfce8318a7d4d1cdaddca7a7fec194b (diff) | |
download | cpython-b2fa705fd3887c326e811c418469c784353027f4.tar.gz |
Issue #29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/traceback.rst b/Doc/library/traceback.rst index 3c1d9bb51d..066ee96fc0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/traceback.rst +++ b/Doc/library/traceback.rst @@ -291,6 +291,20 @@ capture data for later printing in a lightweight fashion. of tuples. Each tuple should be a 4-tuple with filename, lineno, name, line as the elements. + .. method:: format() + + Returns a list of strings ready for printing. Each string in the + resulting list corresponds to a single frame from the stack. + Each string ends in a newline; the strings may contain internal + newlines as well, for those items with source text lines. + + For long sequences of the same frame and line, the first few + repetitions are shown, followed by a summary line stating the exact + number of further repetitions. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 + Long sequences of repeated frames are now abbreviated. + :class:`FrameSummary` Objects ----------------------------- |