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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2022-03-03 01:45:36 (GMT)
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bpo-21910: Clarify docs for codecs writelines method (GH-31245)
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit a8c87a239ee1414d6dd0b062fe9ec3e5b0c50cb8) Co-authored-by: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -691,8 +691,9 @@ compatible with the Python codec registry.
.. method:: writelines(list)
- Writes the concatenated list of strings to the stream (possibly by reusing
- the :meth:`write` method). The standard bytes-to-bytes codecs
+ Writes the concatenated iterable of strings to the stream (possibly by reusing
+ the :meth:`write` method). Infinite or
+ very large iterables are not supported. The standard bytes-to-bytes codecs
do not support this method.