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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-05-08 05:37:52 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2001-05-08 05:37:52 (GMT)
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Michael Hudson <mwh21@cam.ac.uk>:
Documentation update to reflect changes to the termios module (noting that the termios functions can take a file object as well as a file descriptor). This closes the documentation portion of SF patch #417081.
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@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ that support \POSIX{} \emph{termios} style tty I/O control (and then
only if configured at installation time).
All functions in this module take a file descriptor \var{fd} as their
-first argument. This must be an integer file descriptor, such as
-returned by \code{sys.stdin.fileno()}.
+first argument. This can be an integer file descriptor, such as
+returned by \code{sys.stdin.fileno()}, or a file object, such as
+\code{sys.stdin} itself.
This module also defines all the constants needed to work with the
functions provided here; these have the same name as their