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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index da07762..753541f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -790,10 +790,13 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. :meth:`__index__` method that returns an integer. + .. index:: + single: file object; open() built-in function + .. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True) - Open *file* and return a corresponding stream. If the file cannot be opened, - an :exc:`IOError` is raised. + Open *file* and return a corresponding :term:`file object`. If the file + cannot be opened, an :exc:`IOError` is raised. *file* is either a string or bytes object giving the pathname (absolute or relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or @@ -900,7 +903,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. closed. If a filename is given *closefd* has no effect and must be ``True`` (the default). - The type of file object returned by the :func:`open` function depends on the + The type of :term:`file object` returned by the :func:`open` function + depends on the mode. When :func:`open` is used to open a file in a text mode (``'w'``, ``'r'``, ``'wt'``, ``'rt'``, etc.), it returns a subclass of :class:`io.TextIOBase` (specifically :class:`io.TextIOWrapper`). When used |