Merge: #11726: Make linecache docs reflect that all files are treated the same.

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R David Murray 2015-03-20 11:32:17 -04:00
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@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ attempting to optimize internally, using a cache, the common case where many
lines are read from a single file. This is used by the :mod:`traceback` module
to retrieve source lines for inclusion in the formatted traceback.
The :func:`tokenize.open` function is used to open Python source files. This
The :func:`tokenize.open` function is used to open files. This
function uses :func:`tokenize.detect_encoding` to get the encoding of the
Python source file.
file; in the absence of an encoding token, the file encoding defaults to UTF-8.
The :mod:`linecache` module defines the following functions: