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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 71d3f67..1f6f813 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ .. sectionauthor:: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> The :mod:`io` module provides the Python interfaces to stream handling. The -builtin :func:`open` function is defined in this module. +built-in :func:`open` function is defined in this module. At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class :class:`IOBase`. It defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ buffered text interface to a buffered raw stream stream for text. Argument names are not part of the specification, and only the arguments of -:func:`open` are intended to be used as keyword arguments. +:func:`.open` are intended to be used as keyword arguments. Module Interface @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ Module Interface .. data:: DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE An int containing the default buffer size used by the module's buffered I/O - classes. :func:`open` uses the file's blksize (as obtained by + classes. :func:`.open` uses the file's blksize (as obtained by :func:`os.stat`) if possible. .. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=None, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True) @@ -142,8 +142,8 @@ Module Interface 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 - mode. When :func:`open` is used to open a file in a text mode (``'w'``, + The type of 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:`TextIOBase` (specifically :class:`TextIOWrapper`). When used to open a file in a binary mode with buffering, the returned class is a subclass of @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ I/O Base Classes most *limit* bytes will be read. The line terminator is always ``b'\n'`` for binary files; for text files, - the *newlines* argument to :func:`open` can be used to select the line + the *newlines* argument to :func:`.open` can be used to select the line terminator(s) recognized. .. method:: readlines(hint=-1) |