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| author | Benjamin Kane <bbkane@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-08-08 02:57:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-08-08 02:57:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 705f14556545699ab615ec98f707b438f9603767 (patch) | |
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| parent | 102b4988b1a10d5a61034381aea15521d17c210c (diff) | |
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Doc: Add a link to tutorial page from `open()` doc (GH-21737)
Adds a link to the "Reading and Writing Files" page so users can
more easily discover how file handles are handled with the `with`
context manager vs without it.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 3c36b59..43c47c1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1055,7 +1055,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True, opener=None) Open *file* and return a corresponding :term:`file object`. If the file - cannot be opened, an :exc:`OSError` is raised. + cannot be opened, an :exc:`OSError` is raised. See + :ref:`tut-files` for more examples of how to use this function. *file* is a :term:`path-like object` giving the pathname (absolute or relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or an |