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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 5ac4499..23d6c6d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -708,11 +708,13 @@ Text I/O Read and return at most *n* characters from the stream as a single :class:`str`. If *n* is negative or ``None``, reads until EOF. - .. method:: readline() + .. method:: readline(limit=-1) Read until newline or EOF and return a single ``str``. If the stream is already at EOF, an empty string is returned. + If *limit* is specified, at most *limit* characters will be read. + .. method:: seek(offset, whence=SEEK_SET) Change the stream position to the given *offset*. Behaviour depends |