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author | Mariatta Wijaya <mariatta.wijaya@gmail.com> | 2017-02-06 20:16:58 -0800 |
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committer | Mariatta Wijaya <mariatta.wijaya@gmail.com> | 2017-02-06 20:16:58 -0800 |
commit | da79bcf8ac7ae72218ab023e1ed54390bc1a3a27 (patch) | |
tree | 74845e2dbd9521d9748b9c32f1922f4123083bf3 /Doc/library/traceback.rst | |
parent | e3c7e835bdfc97750eb9b7fc0ad2493108c2d438 (diff) | |
parent | 1fe806ac56f8b83694d24ab604eb695d00bc8497 (diff) | |
download | cpython-da79bcf8ac7ae72218ab023e1ed54390bc1a3a27.tar.gz |
Issue #29371: merge with 3.5
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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 ----------------------------- |