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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-06-24 11:24:56 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2012-06-24 11:24:56 (GMT) |
commit | b2462e2b8c643ff040a46f992b78b16013222c09 (patch) | |
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Minor clarification about fdopen().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 0729a94..574ee1d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -600,15 +600,16 @@ process and user. File Object Creation -------------------- -These functions create new :term:`file objects <file object>`. (See also :func:`open`.) +These functions create new :term:`file objects <file object>`. (See also +:func:`~os.open` for opening file descriptors.) .. function:: fdopen(fd, *args, **kwargs) - Return an open file object connected to the file descriptor *fd*. - This is an alias of :func:`open` and accepts the same arguments. - The only difference is that the first argument of :func:`fdopen` - must always be an integer. + Return an open file object connected to the file descriptor *fd*. This is an + alias of the :func:`open` built-in function and accepts the same arguments. + The only difference is that the first argument of :func:`fdopen` must always + be an integer. .. _os-fd-ops: @@ -952,10 +953,10 @@ as internal buffering of data. .. note:: This function is intended for low-level I/O and must be applied to a file - descriptor as returned by :func:`os.open` or :func:`pipe`. To read a "file object" - returned by the built-in function :func:`open` or by :func:`popen` or - :func:`fdopen`, or :data:`sys.stdin`, use its :meth:`~file.read` or - :meth:`~file.readline` methods. + descriptor as returned by :func:`os.open` or :func:`pipe`. To read a + "file object" returned by the built-in function :func:`open` or by + :func:`popen` or :func:`fdopen`, or :data:`sys.stdin`, use its + :meth:`~file.read` or :meth:`~file.readline` methods. .. function:: sendfile(out, in, offset, nbytes) |