The linecache module allows one to get any line from any file, while attempting to optimize internally, using a cache, the common case where many lines are read from a single file. This is used by the traceback module to retrieve source lines for inclusion in the formatted traceback.
The linecache module defines the following functions:
filename, lineno[, module_globals]) |
''
on errors
(the terminating newline character will be included for lines that are
found).
If a file named filename is not found, the function will look
for it in the module search path,
sys.path
, after first checking for a PEP 302 __loader__
in module_globals, in case the module was imported from a zipfile
or other non-filesystem import source.
New in version 2.5: The module_globals parameter was added.
) |
[filename]) |
Example:
>>> import linecache >>> linecache.getline('/etc/passwd', 4) 'sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh\n'