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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-05-06 16:02:42 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2002-05-06 16:02:42 (GMT)
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Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and
xreadlines.xreadlines(). This closes SF patch #552804.
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex4
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex b/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex
index d824fc3..dda56e7 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ former case.
\begin{funcdesc}{xreadlines}{fileobj}
Return a new xreadlines object which will iterate over the contents
of \var{fileobj}. \var{fileobj} must have a \method{readlines()}
- method that supports the \var{sizehint} parameter.
+ method that supports the \var{sizehint} parameter. \note{Because
+ the \method{readlines()} method buffers data, this effectively
+ ignores the effects of setting the file object as unbuffered.}
\end{funcdesc}
An xreadlines object \var{s} supports the following sequence