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Issue #26823: fix traceback abbreviation docs - be clear builtin traceback display was also updated - show example output in What's New - fix versionadded markup [#26823]

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan@gmail.com
date	Tue, 16 Aug 2016 10:58:14 +1000
parents	705416c5909e
children	d277870a6012
files	Doc/library/traceback.rst Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
diffstat	2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)[+] [-] Doc/library/traceback.rst 5 Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst 26

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--- a/Doc/library/traceback.rst +++ b/Doc/library/traceback.rst @@ -302,9 +302,8 @@ capture data for later printing in a lig 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.

```
 .. versionchanged:: 3.6[](#l1.10)
```

    Long sequences of repeated frames are now abbreviated.[](#l1.11)

:class:FrameSummary Objects

--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -207,7 +207,12 @@ Example of fatal error on buffer overflo Other Language Changes ====================== -* None yet. +Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: + +* Long sequences of repeated traceback lines are now abbreviated as

"[Previous line repeated {count} more times]" (see
:ref:py36-traceback for an example).
(Contributed by Emanuel Barry in :issue:26823.) New Modules @@ -438,11 +443,26 @@ not work in future versions of Tcl. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:22115). +.. _py36-traceback: + traceback --------- -The :meth:~traceback.StackSummary.format method now abbreviates long sequences -of repeated lines as "[Previous line repeated {count} more times]". +Both the traceback module and the interpreter's builtin exception display now +abbreviate long sequences of repeated lines in tracebacks as shown in the +following example:: +
def f(): f()
...
f()
Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>[](#l2.36)

```
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in f[](#l2.37)
```
```
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in f[](#l2.38)
```
```
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in f[](#l2.39)
```

 [Previous line repeated 995 more times][](#l2.40)

RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

+ (Contributed by Emanuel Barry in :issue:26823.)