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bpo-21760: fix __file__ description (GH-19097)

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Furkan Onder 2021-06-10 00:10:20 +03:00 • committed by GitHub
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.. attribute:: __file__
.. attribute:: __cached__
``__file__`` is optional. If set, this attribute's value must be a
string. The import system may opt to leave ``__file__`` unset if it
has no semantic meaning (e.g. a module loaded from a database).
``__file__`` is optional (if set, value must be a string). It indicates
the pathname of the file from which the module was loaded (if
loaded from a file), or the pathname of the shared libray file
for extension modules loaded dynamically from a shared library.
It might be missing for certain types of modules, such as C
modules that are statically linked into the interpreter, and the
import system may opt to leave it unset if it has no semantic
meaning (e.g. a module loaded from a database).
If ``__file__`` is set, it may also be appropriate to set the
``__cached__`` attribute which is the path to any compiled version of

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The description for __file__ fixed.
Patch by Furkan Onder