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Expand Up @@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
:func:`sys.breakpointhook` can be set to some other function and
:func:`breakpoint` will automatically call that, allowing you to drop into
the debugger of choice.
If :func:`sys.breakpointhook` is not available to be called, this function will
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This descriptions sounds like it will raise error when callable(sys.breakpointhook) is not true.

But when sys.breakpointhook is set but not callable, it doesn't raise RuntimeError. (e.g. setting it to 1) RuntimeError is raised only when getattr(sys, 'breakpointhook') is False.

raise :exc:`RuntimeError`.

.. audit-event:: builtins.breakpoint breakpointhook breakpoint

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