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r85530 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 17:32:05 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
Refrain from using inline suites.
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r85532 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#7771: reference to documentation of dictview methods and operations.
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r85533 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:07:41 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#9683: remove broken dead code dealing with nested arguments removed from Py3k, and update the docs and docstrings accordingly.
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r85534 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:19:43 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#9801: document how list and dict proxies created by Managers behave w.r.t. mutable items.
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r85538 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:35:46 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#7303: add documentation for useful pkgutil functions and classes.
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r85539 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:14 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
Fix issue references.
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r85540 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:42:37 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#6798: fix wrong docs for the arguments to several trace events.
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r85541 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 18:53:24 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#4968: updates to inspect.is* function docs.
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r85542 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:01:15 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#7790: move table of struct_time members to the actual description of struct_time.
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r85543 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:03:02 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#4785: document strict argument of JSONDecoder, plus add object_pairs_hook in the docstrings.
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r85546 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 19:58:45 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#5762: fix handling of empty namespace in minidom, which would result in AttributeError on toxml().
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r85547 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 20:00:35 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#6098: Refrain from claiming DOM level 3 conformance in minidom.
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r85548 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-15 21:46:19 +0200 (Fr, 15 Okt 2010) | 1 line
#10072: assume a bit less knowledge of the FTP protocol in the ftplib docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst
index bf3fd47..3af5b5f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sys.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst
@@ -746,8 +746,9 @@
``'return'``
A function (or other code block) is about to return. The local trace
- function is called; *arg* is the value that will be returned. The trace
- function's return value is ignored.
+ function is called; *arg* is the value that will be returned, or ``None``
+ if the event is caused by an exception being raised. The trace function's
+ return value is ignored.
``'exception'``
An exception has occurred. The local trace function is called; *arg* is a
@@ -759,10 +760,10 @@
a built-in. *arg* is the C function object.
``'c_return'``
- A C function has returned. *arg* is ``None``.
+ A C function has returned. *arg* is the C function object.
``'c_exception'``
- A C function has raised an exception. *arg* is ``None``.
+ A C function has raised an exception. *arg* is the C function object.
Note that as an exception is propagated down the chain of callers, an
``'exception'`` event is generated at each level.