docs missing 'trace' module

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BPO	779976
Nosy	@mwhudson, @freddrake, @akuchling

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[84eec9f4-d74c-4dbf-8911-da1772db4ae4]

The 'trace' module is new in Python 2.3. There is no mention of it in the module listing at http://www.python.org/ doc/2.3/modindex.html nor is it documented in the "undocumented modules" chapter at http://www.python.org/ doc/2.3/lib/undoc.html .

(You would think as one of the coauthors for that module that I could be of help, but it's been about 4 years since I looked at it. :)

[freddrake]

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Jeremy made this a module, so he's volunteered to write the LaTeX docs.

[mwhudson]

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Armin and I were talking about factoring out the co_lnotab-frobbing code and were being hampered by not knowing what the code was trying to do...

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A trivial related note: Tools/Scripts/README.txt still lists trace.py as though it were still there and not in Lib instead.

[akuchling]

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I've updated the scripts/README in preparation for the 2.5b3 release.

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It's listed in the 2.5 docs, so I'm closing: http://docs.python.org/dev/2.5/lib/trace-api.html