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code.co_positions behaviour does not match documentation #100117

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The documentation of co_positions() says:

The iterator returns tuples containing the (start_line, end_line, start_column, end_column). The i-th tuple corresponds to the position of the source code that compiled to the i-th instruction.

I think this is incorrect, because the iterator returns tuples for cache entries as well:

>>> def f(): ... a.b = 1 ... >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(f) 1 0 RESUME 0 2 2 LOAD_CONST 1 (1) 4 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (a) 16 STORE_ATTR 1 (b) 26 LOAD_CONST 0 (None) 28 RETURN_VALUE >>> len(list(f.__code__.co_positions())) 15 >>> from pprint import pprint as pp >>> pp(list(f.__code__.co_positions())) [(1, 1, 0, 0), (2, 2, 8, 9), (2, 2, 2, 3), (2, 2, 2, 3), (2, 2, 2, 3), (2, 2, 2, 3), (2, 2, 2, 3), (2, 2, 2, 3), (2, 2, 2, 5), (2, 2, 2, 5), (2, 2, 2, 5), (2, 2, 2, 5), (2, 2, 2, 5), (2, 2, 2, 5), (2, 2, 2, 5)] >>> 

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