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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-08-03 12:06:29 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-08-03 12:06:29 (GMT)
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ built-in :func:`open` function is defined in this module.
At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class :class:`IOBase`. It
defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no
separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are allowed
-to throw an :exc:`IOError` if they do not support a given operation.
+to raise an :exc:`IOError` if they do not support a given operation.
Extending :class:`IOBase` is :class:`RawIOBase` which deals simply with the
reading and writing of raw bytes to a stream. :class:`FileIO` subclasses