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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-09-22 13:53:14 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2009-09-22 13:53:14 (GMT) |
| commit | 73753d354b41cab4d6cd15ed2308b9d1a6dc1514 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e25d9f4da949429d056be5d789186a069d2846a /Doc/library | |
| parent | 8355e7c4a50998414d62c96fa3980737681a481e (diff) | |
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#6969: make it explicit that configparser writes/reads text files, and fix the example.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index a54bc19..a5d3a77 100644 --- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst @@ -231,9 +231,11 @@ RawConfigParser Objects .. method:: RawConfigParser.readfp(fp, filename=None) Read and parse configuration data from the file or file-like object in *fp* - (only the :meth:`readline` method is used). If *filename* is omitted and *fp* - has a :attr:`name` attribute, that is used for *filename*; the default is - ``<???>``. + (only the :meth:`readline` method is used). The file-like object must + operate in text mode, i.e. return strings from :meth:`readline`. + + If *filename* is omitted and *fp* has a :attr:`name` attribute, that is used + for *filename*; the default is ``<???>``. .. method:: RawConfigParser.get(section, option) @@ -279,8 +281,9 @@ RawConfigParser Objects .. method:: RawConfigParser.write(fileobject) - Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object. This - representation can be parsed by a future :meth:`read` call. + Write a representation of the configuration to the specified file object, + which must be opened in text mode (accepting strings). This representation + can be parsed by a future :meth:`read` call. .. method:: RawConfigParser.remove_option(section, option) @@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ An example of writing to a configuration file:: config.set('Section1', 'foo', '%(bar)s is %(baz)s!') # Writing our configuration file to 'example.cfg' - with open('example.cfg', 'wb') as configfile: + with open('example.cfg', 'w') as configfile: config.write(configfile) An example of reading the configuration file again:: |