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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2012-07-25 20:38:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2012-07-25 20:38:33 (GMT) |
| commit | b37f14c70e05cfc0487538c558323ea26f4ab603 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e6ffd986a51e142373245f108910967f5512e0b | |
| parent | 34e992d4513bebdc1f8286adee04cb666da75dde (diff) | |
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Mention the *limit* argument of TextIO.readline().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 1d1f490..4319931 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -696,11 +696,13 @@ Text I/O Read and return at most *n* characters from the stream as a single :class:`unicode`. If *n* is negative or ``None``, reads until EOF. - .. method:: readline() + .. method:: readline(limit=-1) Read until newline or EOF and return a single ``unicode``. If the stream is already at EOF, an empty string is returned. + If *limit* is specified, at most *limit* characters will be read. + .. method:: seek(offset, whence=SEEK_SET) Change the stream position to the given *offset*. Behaviour depends |