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author | Brian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com> | 2010-08-24 05:20:30 (GMT) |
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committer | Brian Curtin <brian.curtin@gmail.com> | 2010-08-24 05:20:30 (GMT) |
commit | 8790a079279009bb0e97df134b77eaedbae3603e (patch) | |
tree | 3f35900dae481610b83d80d4a0ca14a348ed86a4 /Doc | |
parent | 17689991e6ef5831eae57b2e91f178256d6d3ccb (diff) | |
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Fix #7579. Add docstrings to msvcrt and adjust some wording for bytes.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst b/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst index d968833..7636b6f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst +++ b/Doc/library/msvcrt.rst @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ Console I/O .. function:: getch() - Read a keypress and return the resulting character. Nothing is echoed to the - console. This call will block if a keypress is not already available, but will - not wait for :kbd:`Enter` to be pressed. If the pressed key was a special - function key, this will return ``'\000'`` or ``'\xe0'``; the next call will - return the keycode. The :kbd:`Control-C` keypress cannot be read with this - function. + Read a keypress and return the resulting character as a byte string. + Nothing is echoed to the console. This call will block if a keypress + is not already available, but will not wait for :kbd:`Enter` to be + pressed. If the pressed key was a special function key, this will + return ``'\000'`` or ``'\xe0'``; the next call will return the keycode. + The :kbd:`Control-C` keypress cannot be read with this function. .. function:: getwch() @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Console I/O .. function:: putch(char) - Print the character *char* to the console without buffering. + Print the byte string *char* to the console without buffering. .. function:: putwch(unicode_char) @@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ Console I/O .. function:: ungetch(char) - Cause the character *char* to be "pushed back" into the console buffer; it will - be the next character read by :func:`getch` or :func:`getche`. + Cause the byte string *char* to be "pushed back" into the console buffer; + it will be the next character read by :func:`getch` or :func:`getche`. .. function:: ungetwch(unicode_char) |