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authorEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2013-03-13 00:27:00 (GMT)
committerEzio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>2013-03-13 00:27:00 (GMT)
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#17402: avoid shadowing built-in map in mmap examples. Initial patch by Aman Shah.
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst
index 5f0f004..178e388 100644
--- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst
@@ -106,19 +106,19 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
with open("hello.txt", "r+b") as f:
# memory-map the file, size 0 means whole file
- map = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)
+ mm = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0)
# read content via standard file methods
- print(map.readline()) # prints b"Hello Python!\n"
+ print(mm.readline()) # prints b"Hello Python!\n"
# read content via slice notation
- print(map[:5]) # prints b"Hello"
+ print(mm[:5]) # prints b"Hello"
# update content using slice notation;
# note that new content must have same size
- map[6:] = b" world!\n"
+ mm[6:] = b" world!\n"
# ... and read again using standard file methods
- map.seek(0)
- print(map.readline()) # prints b"Hello world!\n"
+ mm.seek(0)
+ print(mm.readline()) # prints b"Hello world!\n"
# close the map
- map.close()
+ mm.close()
:class:`mmap` can also be used as a context manager in a :keyword:`with`
@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
import mmap
- with mmap.mmap(-1, 13) as map:
- map.write("Hello world!")
+ with mmap.mmap(-1, 13) as mm:
+ mm.write("Hello world!")
.. versionadded:: 3.2
Context manager support.
@@ -139,16 +139,16 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length
import mmap
import os
- map = mmap.mmap(-1, 13)
- map.write(b"Hello world!")
+ mm = mmap.mmap(-1, 13)
+ mm.write(b"Hello world!")
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0: # In a child process
- map.seek(0)
- print(map.readline())
+ mm.seek(0)
+ print(mm.readline())
- map.close()
+ mm.close()
Memory-mapped file objects support the following methods: