From 78f43a73cb9f44e113730fd74b98d681843c8398 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:24:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] linecache.updatecache() returns an empty list on error lines variable was not set on IOError --- Lib/linecache.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/linecache.py b/Lib/linecache.py index ef2adf5369..f0bb83d1d8 100644 --- a/Lib/linecache.py +++ b/Lib/linecache.py @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ def updatecache(filename, module_globals=None): with open(fullname, 'r', encoding=coding) as fp: lines = fp.readlines() except IOError: - pass + lines = [] if lines and not lines[-1].endswith('\n'): lines[-1] += '\n' size, mtime = stat.st_size, stat.st_mtime -- 2.49.0