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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/io.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 0ff05cf..9f62dd2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -230,8 +230,7 @@ I/O Base Classes .. class:: IOBase - The abstract base class for all I/O classes, acting on streams of bytes. - There is no public constructor. + The abstract base class for all I/O classes. This class provides empty abstract implementations for many methods that derived classes can override selectively; the default @@ -385,8 +384,7 @@ I/O Base Classes .. class:: RawIOBase - Base class for raw binary streams. It inherits :class:`IOBase`. There is no - public constructor. + Base class for raw binary streams. It inherits :class:`IOBase`. Raw binary streams typically provide low-level access to an underlying OS device or API, and do not try to encapsulate it in high-level primitives @@ -439,7 +437,7 @@ I/O Base Classes .. class:: BufferedIOBase Base class for binary streams that support some kind of buffering. - It inherits :class:`IOBase`. There is no public constructor. + It inherits :class:`IOBase`. The main difference with :class:`RawIOBase` is that methods :meth:`read`, :meth:`readinto` and :meth:`write` will try (respectively) to read as much @@ -776,8 +774,7 @@ Text I/O .. class:: TextIOBase Base class for text streams. This class provides a character and line based - interface to stream I/O. It inherits :class:`IOBase`. There is no public - constructor. + interface to stream I/O. It inherits :class:`IOBase`. :class:`TextIOBase` provides or overrides these data attributes and methods in addition to those from :class:`IOBase`: |