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diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 540e4d7..0978770 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -232,8 +232,9 @@ Miscellaneous options .. cmdoption:: -u - Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered. On systems where it - matters, also put stdin, stdout and stderr in binary mode. + Force the binary layer of the stdin, stdout and stderr streams (which is + available as their ``buffer`` attribute) to be unbuffered. The text I/O + layer will still be line-buffered. See also :envvar:`PYTHONUNBUFFERED`. |