[Python-Dev] sys.settrace: behavior doesn't match docs

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon May 2 15:12:32 CEST 2011


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au> wrote:
> On 2/05/2011 9:27 PM, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Maybe the fact no one noticed the docs
>> were wrong proves that no one ever tried returning None from a local
>> trace function.
>
> Or if they did, they should have complained by now.  IMO, if the behaviour
> regresses from how it is documented and how it previously worked and no
> reports of the regression exist, we should just fix it without regard to
> people relying on the "new" functionality...

+1

Cheers,
Nick.

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