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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-19 06:52:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-19 06:52:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 70f355d13e35867482b65a6a2095abe50b21d7d8 (patch) | |
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| parent | 7f54dce9bd4a931db85bb55769d5ce2409961246 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 50e976b..498cbc8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Module Interface Open *file* and return a corresponding stream. If the file cannot be opened, an :exc:`IOError` is raised. - *file* is either a string or bytes object giving the name (and the path if - the file isn't in the current working directory) of the file to be opened or + *file* is either a string or bytes object giving the pathname (absolute or + relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or an integer file descriptor of the file to be wrapped. (If a file descriptor is given, it is closed when the returned I/O object is closed, unless *closefd* is set to ``False``.) |