[stdlib-sig] proposed removal: linecache

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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" <brett at python.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:59 PM
> Subject: [stdlib-sig] proposed removal: linecache
> 
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> -Brett
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