Meta Line information in Python?

[Terry Reedy]

"Tan Woon Kiong" <thomas_sg2000 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f735e100.0207040009.62d21938 at posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to specify meta line information in Python?
>
> For instance, in C language, this can be done by writing the
statement
>   #line <line-no> "<src file>"

There are internal __file__ and __lineno__ (spelling?) vars which are
used to print tracebacks.  I do not know if they are writable from
Python (as opposed to C code compiled into the interpreter).  You
might investigate

Terry J. Reedy