On 2008-03-20 08:27, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

+1 for removal. May need to move some of its code into the traceback module.

linecache has code that is specifically used for reading Python modules. It's really just a helper for being able to print tracebacks. Thread-safety is not a priority for this - module code doesn't change that often ;-) Moving the code to the traceback module seems fine.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Cannon" To: "stdlib-sig" Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:59 PM Subject: [stdlib-sig] proposed removal: linecache

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Caching files is not a common thing. And even when you do it, it isn't exactly hard to read a file into a list. Plus it isn't thread-safe.

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