(Merge 3.2) open() / TextIOWrapper doc: make it explicit than newline='\n'

doesn't translate newlines on output.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 0bb22aa..3f56621 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -887,9 +887,9 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
    * On output, if *newline* is ``None``, any ``'\n'`` characters written are
      translated to the system default line separator, :data:`os.linesep`.  If
-     *newline* is ``''``, no translation takes place.  If *newline* is any of
-     the other legal values, any ``'\n'`` characters written are translated to
-     the given string.
+     *newline* is ``''`` or ``'\n'``, no translation takes place.  If *newline*
+     is any of the other legal values, any ``'\n'`` characters written are
+     translated to the given string.
 
    If *closefd* is ``False`` and a file descriptor rather than a filename was
    given, the underlying file descriptor will be kept open when the file is
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 0aadc9d..aeaf56b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -780,9 +780,9 @@ Text I/O
 
    * On output, if *newline* is ``None``, any ``'\n'`` characters written are
      translated to the system default line separator, :data:`os.linesep`.  If
-     *newline* is ``''``, no translation takes place.  If *newline* is any of
-     the other legal values, any ``'\n'`` characters written are translated to
-     the given string.
+     *newline* is ``''`` or ``'\n'``, no translation takes place.  If *newline*
+     is any of the other legal values, any ``'\n'`` characters written are
+     translated to the given string.
 
    If *line_buffering* is ``True``, :meth:`flush` is implied when a call to
    write contains a newline character.