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-rw-r--r--Doc/faq/programming.rst10
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/faq/library.rst b/Doc/faq/library.rst
index 4755110..34e2fdf 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/library.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/library.rst
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ using curses, but curses is a fairly large module to learn.
try:
c = sys.stdin.read(1)
print("Got character", repr(c))
- except IOError:
+ except OSError:
pass
finally:
termios.tcsetattr(fd, termios.TCSAFLUSH, oldterm)
@@ -224,7 +224,11 @@ using curses, but curses is a fairly large module to learn.
:func:`termios.tcsetattr` turns off stdin's echoing and disables canonical
mode. :func:`fcntl.fnctl` is used to obtain stdin's file descriptor flags
and modify them for non-blocking mode. Since reading stdin when it is empty
- results in an :exc:`IOError`, this error is caught and ignored.
+ results in an :exc:`OSError`, this error is caught and ignored.
+
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ *sys.stdin.read* used to raise :exc:`IOError`. Starting from Python 3.3
+ :exc:`IOError` is alias for :exc:`OSError`.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index 42e55d6..79c7289 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
@@ -1750,12 +1750,12 @@ When I edit an imported module and reimport it, the changes don't show up. Why
For reasons of efficiency as well as consistency, Python only reads the module
file on the first time a module is imported. If it didn't, in a program
consisting of many modules where each one imports the same basic module, the
-basic module would be parsed and re-parsed many times. To force rereading of a
+basic module would be parsed and re-parsed many times. To force re-reading of a
changed module, do this::
- import imp
+ import importlib
import modname
- imp.reload(modname)
+ importlib.reload(modname)
Warning: this technique is not 100% fool-proof. In particular, modules
containing statements like ::
@@ -1767,10 +1767,10 @@ module contains class definitions, existing class instances will *not* be
updated to use the new class definition. This can result in the following
paradoxical behaviour:
- >>> import imp
+ >>> import importlib
>>> import cls
>>> c = cls.C() # Create an instance of C
- >>> imp.reload(cls)
+ >>> importlib.reload(cls)
<module 'cls' from 'cls.py'>
>>> isinstance(c, cls.C) # isinstance is false?!?
False