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author | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 00:28:40 (GMT) |
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committer | Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org> | 2011-08-19 00:28:40 (GMT) |
commit | bd858b75ce3c0528e1e7b97875d527dd85900138 (patch) | |
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Turn last automatic footnote in this file into a manually-numbered one
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diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 044ecaf..30faddb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ Files have the following methods: .. method:: file.readline([size]) Read one entire line from the file. A trailing newline character is kept in - the string (but may be absent when a file ends with an incomplete line). [#]_ + the string (but may be absent when a file ends with an incomplete line). [6]_ If the *size* argument is present and non-negative, it is a maximum byte count (including the trailing newline) and an incomplete line may be returned. When *size* is not 0, an empty string is returned *only* when EOF @@ -3062,7 +3062,7 @@ The following attributes are only supported by :term:`new-style class`\ es. .. [5] To format only a tuple you should therefore provide a singleton tuple whose only element is the tuple to be formatted. -.. [#] The advantage of leaving the newline on is that returning an empty string is +.. [6] The advantage of leaving the newline on is that returning an empty string is then an unambiguous EOF indication. It is also possible (in cases where it might matter, for example, if you want to make an exact copy of a file while scanning its lines) to tell whether the last line of a file ended in a newline |