summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Doc/library/io.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2016-10-20 23:48:14 (GMT)
committerMartin Panter <vadmium+py@gmail.com>2016-10-20 23:48:14 (GMT)
commitccb2c0e31056de091abdd62fc07ca6e4bb052f24 (patch)
tree84ff95e0152d152124b078a9f6e85f053b7147c1 /Doc/library/io.rst
parentea8762cae64813788633b7d2a93c2c513c01fdea (diff)
downloadcpython-ccb2c0e31056de091abdd62fc07ca6e4bb052f24.zip
cpython-ccb2c0e31056de091abdd62fc07ca6e4bb052f24.tar.gz
cpython-ccb2c0e31056de091abdd62fc07ca6e4bb052f24.tar.bz2
Issue #23214: Implement optional BufferedReader, BytesIO read1() argument
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/io.rst')
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/io.rst21
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 4da6e09..da7a681 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ I/O Base Classes
A :exc:`BlockingIOError` is raised if the underlying raw stream is in
non blocking-mode, and has no data available at the moment.
- .. method:: read1(size=-1)
+ .. method:: read1([size])
Read and return up to *size* bytes, with at most one call to the
underlying raw stream's :meth:`~RawIOBase.read` (or
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ I/O Base Classes
implementing your own buffering on top of a :class:`BufferedIOBase`
object.
+ If *size* is −1 (the default), an arbitrary number of bytes are
+ returned (more than zero unless EOF is reached).
+
.. method:: readinto(b)
Read bytes into a pre-allocated, writable
@@ -628,13 +631,16 @@ than raw I/O does.
Return :class:`bytes` containing the entire contents of the buffer.
- .. method:: read1()
+ .. method:: read1([size])
+
+ In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`~BufferedIOBase.read`.
- In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`read`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ The *size* argument is now optional.
- .. method:: readinto1()
+ .. method:: readinto1(b)
- In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`readinto`.
+ In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`~BufferedIOBase.readinto`.
.. versionadded:: 3.5
@@ -664,12 +670,15 @@ than raw I/O does.
Read and return *size* bytes, or if *size* is not given or negative, until
EOF or if the read call would block in non-blocking mode.
- .. method:: read1(size)
+ .. method:: read1([size])
Read and return up to *size* bytes with only one call on the raw stream.
If at least one byte is buffered, only buffered bytes are returned.
Otherwise, one raw stream read call is made.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ The *size* argument is now optional.
+
.. class:: BufferedWriter(raw, buffer_size=DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)