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@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ to provide an interface to files in the machine's file system.
The :class:`BufferedIOBase` ABC extends :class:`IOBase`. It deals with
buffering on a raw binary stream (:class:`RawIOBase`). Its subclasses,
:class:`BufferedWriter`, :class:`BufferedReader`, and :class:`BufferedRWPair`
-buffer raw binary streams that are readable, writable, and both readable and writable,
+buffer raw binary streams that are writable, readable, and both readable and writable,
respectively. :class:`BufferedRandom` provides a buffered interface to seekable streams.
Another :class:`BufferedIOBase` subclass, :class:`BytesIO`, is a stream of
in-memory bytes.