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author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-07-13 14:41:12 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-07-13 14:41:12 (GMT) |
commit | 9b369c952cbefb064dda6cb781e66cc1b793fffa (patch) | |
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bpo-43126: Expand docs on io.IOBase.readlines() method (GH-27061) (GH-27113)
Co-authored-by: Ćukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
(cherry picked from commit 3b5b99da4b256a31933112f4a2385386149c19e1)
Co-authored-by: andrei kulakov <andrei.avk@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index f9ffc19..0881015 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ I/O Base Classes to control the number of lines read: no more lines will be read if the total size (in bytes/characters) of all lines so far exceeds *hint*. + *hint* values of ``0`` or less, as well as ``None``, are treated as no + hint. + Note that it's already possible to iterate on file objects using ``for line in file: ...`` without calling ``file.readlines()``. |