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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-02-08 22:51:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1998-02-08 22:51:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 8083c176a3e7c31996f06bb209bedd448145e87c (patch) | |
| tree | 08773f6b4da794d9560444ef5d4f850d12b4d163 /Doc/lib/libtypes.tex | |
| parent | 6e91c6a34458efe77af0bce7abde706204ba0e64 (diff) | |
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Add a note about rounding up of readlines()' sizehint to 8K.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex b/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex index 6cb66f9..dfe1ecb 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtypes.tex @@ -737,7 +737,8 @@ descriptors, e.g. module \code{fcntl} or \code{os.read()} and friends. Read until \EOF{} using \code{readline()} and return a list containing the lines thus read. If the optional \var{sizehint} argument is present, instead of reading up to \EOF{}, whole lines totalling - approximately \var{sizehint} bytes are read. + approximately \var{sizehint} bytes (possibly after rounding up to an + internal buffer size) are read. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{seek}{offset\, whence} |