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  r67245 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-17 23:05:19 +0100 (Mon, 17 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  improve __hash__ docs
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  r67277 | skip.montanaro | 2008-11-19 04:35:41 +0100 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  patch from issue 1108
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  r67289 | brett.cannon | 2008-11-19 21:29:39 +0100 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Ignore .pyc and .pyo files.
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  r67295 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 05:05:12 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  move useful sys.settrace information to the function's documentation from the debugger
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  r67301 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:25:31 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  fix indentation and a sphinx warning
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  r67302 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 22:44:23 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  oops! didn't mean to disable that test
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  r67303 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-20 23:06:22 +0100 (Thu, 20 Nov 2008) | 1 line

  backport r67300
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  r67307 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-11-21 00:34:31 +0100 (Fri, 21 Nov 2008) | 9 lines

  Fixed issue #4233.
  Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close()  method on file objects with closefd=False.
  The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file.
  The FileIO  object also got a new readonly attribute closefd.

  Approved by Barry

  Backport of r67106 from the py3k branch
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  r67330 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:34:14 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4364: fix attribute name on ctypes object.
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  r67332 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 09:45:33 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r67336 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-22 11:08:50 +0100 (Sat, 22 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix error about "-*-" being mandatory in coding cookies.
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  r67355 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-23 20:17:25 +0100 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4392: fix parameter name.
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  r67359 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-23 22:57:30 +0100 (Sun, 23 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4399: fix typo.
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  r67362 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-11-24 01:41:43 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Document PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN for PyArg_ParseTuple.
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  r67364 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-24 02:16:29 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  replace reference to debugger-hooks
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  r67367 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-24 17:16:07 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix typo.
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  r67368 | georg.brandl | 2008-11-24 20:56:47 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 2 lines

  #4404: make clear what "path" is.
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  r67370 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-11-24 23:00:29 +0100 (Mon, 24 Nov 2008) | 8 lines

  Add unittests that verify documented behavior of public methods in Transport
  class.

  These methods can be overridden.  The tests verify that the overridden
  methods are called, and that changes to the connection have a visible
  effect on the request.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 18df0e0..25d5f16 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -214,8 +214,10 @@ I/O Base Classes
 
    .. method:: close()
 
-      Flush and close this stream.  This method has no effect if the file is
-      already closed.
+      Flush and close this stream. This method has no effect if the file is
+      already closed. Once the file is closed, any operation on the file 
+      (e.g. reading or writing) will raise an :exc:`IOError`. The internal
+      file descriptor isn't closed if *closefd* was False.
 
    .. attribute:: closed