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  r72319 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-05 10:28:49 +0200 (Di, 05 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #1309567: fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories from paths when looking for relative filename matches. Also add a linecache test suite.
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  r72320 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-05 10:30:28 +0200 (Di, 05 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Add a news entry for r72319.
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  r72467 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-08 14:17:34 +0200 (Fr, 08 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Fix name.
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  r72661 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-15 10:03:03 +0200 (Fr, 15 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Fix example output for doctest-like demos.
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  r72675 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-16 13:13:21 +0200 (Sa, 16 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6034: clarify __reversed__ doc.
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  r72676 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-16 13:14:46 +0200 (Sa, 16 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6025: fix signature of parse().
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  r72677 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-16 13:18:55 +0200 (Sa, 16 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6009: undocument default argument of Option as deprecated.
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  r72678 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-16 13:21:29 +0200 (Sa, 16 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #2856: document 2.x os.listdir() behavior for undecodable filenames.
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  r72679 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-16 13:24:41 +0200 (Sa, 16 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Fix about and bugs pages to match real workflow.
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  r72703 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-17 10:10:27 +0200 (So, 17 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  part of #4144: fix exception message in console session.
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  r72708 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-17 10:24:29 +0200 (So, 17 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6017: better document behavior of dictiterators when the dict is changed.
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  r72710 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-17 10:36:04 +0200 (So, 17 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #5942: Copy over flag table from dbm.rst which is clearer.
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  r72712 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-17 10:55:00 +0200 (So, 17 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #5935: mention that BROWSER is looked for in PATH.
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  r72801 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-20 20:31:14 +0200 (Mi, 20 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6055: refer to "sqlite3" consistently.
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  r72802 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-20 20:35:27 +0200 (Mi, 20 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6051: refer to email examples for better way to construct email messages.
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  r72820 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 09:23:32 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Use raise X(y).
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  r72822 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 11:33:25 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6084: fix example.
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  r72824 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 11:43:17 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Fix references to file-related functions and methods (os.* vs file.*).
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  r72826 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 11:49:42 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Fix confusing wording.
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  r72827 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 11:50:30 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  s/use/call/
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  r72828 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 11:58:48 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  Correction in softspace behavior description.
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  r72830 | georg.brandl | 2009-05-22 12:40:00 +0200 (Fr, 22 Mai 2009) | 1 line

  #6086: fix spelling and use a better exception to catch.
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diff --git a/Lib/linecache.py b/Lib/linecache.py
index 48f7dda..e7c33e1 100644
--- a/Lib/linecache.py
+++ b/Lib/linecache.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
     try:
         stat = os.stat(fullname)
     except os.error, msg:
-        basename = os.path.split(filename)[1]
+        basename = filename
 
         # Try for a __loader__, if available
         if module_globals and '__loader__' in module_globals:
@@ -103,7 +103,10 @@
                     )
                     return cache[filename][2]
 
-        # Try looking through the module search path.
+        # Try looking through the module search path, which is only useful
+        # when handling a relative filename.
+        if os.path.isabs(filename):
+            return []
 
         for dirname in sys.path:
             # When using imputil, sys.path may contain things other than