[issue16974] when "python -c command" does a traceback, it open the file "<string>"

[Ramchandra Apte]

Ramchandra Apte added the comment:

+1

On 16 January 2013 17:43, R. David Murray <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> R. David Murray added the comment:
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> Ideally there would be an unambiguous way to know if the object came from
> a file or some other source (say, __file__ is None and another special
> attribute gives the clue to the actual source), but that's not the way
> things work now, and for backward compatibility reasons I doubt that we can
> change it.  I'm sure there are programs that depend on at least '<string>',
> if not some of the other places where a similar thing is done.
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