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| author | Charles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr> | 2012-01-14 10:51:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Charles-François Natali <neologix@free.fr> | 2012-01-14 10:51:00 (GMT) |
| commit | d612de10e551751c44c1772a027fe6953ae04f99 (patch) | |
| tree | 8565f2c4cf1527b511cc4337c9009e051a759eb3 /Modules/_io | |
| parent | 138f4656e38f656afa7436c306aa74f1d4941216 (diff) | |
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Issue #12760: Refer to the new 'x' open mode as "exclusive creation" mode.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/_io/fileio.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_io/fileio.c b/Modules/_io/fileio.c index 57cd9aa..a21aa7a 100644 --- a/Modules/_io/fileio.c +++ b/Modules/_io/fileio.c @@ -1066,9 +1066,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(fileio_doc, "file(name: str[, mode: str][, opener: None]) -> file IO object\n" "\n" "Open a file. The mode can be 'r', 'w', 'x' or 'a' for reading (default),\n" -"writing, creating or appending. The file will be created if it doesn't\n" -"exist when opened for writing or appending; it will be truncated when\n" -"opened for writing. A `FileExistsError` will be raised if it already\n" +"writing, exclusive creation or appending. The file will be created if it\n" +"doesn't exist when opened for writing or appending; it will be truncated\n" +"when opened for writing. A `FileExistsError` will be raised if it already\n" "exists when opened for creating. Opening a file for creating implies\n" "writing so this mode behaves in a similar way to 'w'.Add a '+' to the mode\n" "to allow simultaneous reading and writing. A custom opener can be used by\n" |