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authorAndrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2014-04-16 01:11:36 (GMT)
committerAndrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>2014-04-16 01:11:36 (GMT)
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#15840: make docs consistent by saying operations on closed files raise ValueError.
Patch by Caelyn McAulay. Neither Caelyn nor I could find any cases in 2.7 or 3.4/5 where an operation on a closed stream raised IOError; generally the C implementations have a macro to check for the stream being closed, and these macros all raised ValueError. If we find any, a new bug should be opened.
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-rw-r--r--Modules/_io/iobase.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_io/iobase.c b/Modules/_io/iobase.c
index e372990..ef06b43 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/iobase.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/iobase.c
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(iobase_doc,
"bytes. bytearrays are accepted too, and in some cases (such as\n"
"readinto) needed. Text I/O classes work with str data.\n"
"\n"
- "Note that calling any method (even inquiries) on a closed stream is\n"
- "undefined. Implementations may raise IOError in this case.\n"
+ "Note that calling any method (except additional calls to close(),\n"
+ "which are ignored) on a closed stream should raise a ValueError.\n"
"\n"
"IOBase (and its subclasses) support the iterator protocol, meaning\n"
"that an IOBase object can be iterated over yielding the lines in a\n"