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| author | Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-11-24 17:59:41 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-11-24 17:59:41 (GMT) |
| commit | fafae08cc7caa25f2bd6b29106b50ef76c3e296f (patch) | |
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gh-59254: mention in open() doc that line buffering is for writing (#112318)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index a72f779..b2dd32f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. *buffering* is an optional integer used to set the buffering policy. Pass 0 to switch buffering off (only allowed in binary mode), 1 to select line - buffering (only usable in text mode), and an integer > 1 to indicate the size + buffering (only usable when writing in text mode), and an integer > 1 to indicate the size in bytes of a fixed-size chunk buffer. Note that specifying a buffer size this way applies for binary buffered I/O, but ``TextIOWrapper`` (i.e., files opened with ``mode='r+'``) would have another buffering. To disable buffering in |