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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst index ff599c8..afe0f5e 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst @@ -1338,10 +1338,14 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the details. .. XXX need to provide some more detail here + .. index:: + single: universal newlines; What's new + * The :mod:`fileinput` module was made more flexible. Unicode filenames are now supported, and a *mode* parameter that defaults to ``"r"`` was added to the - :func:`input` function to allow opening files in binary or universal-newline - mode. Another new parameter, *openhook*, lets you use a function other than + :func:`input` function to allow opening files in binary or + :term:`universal newlines` mode. + Another new parameter, *openhook*, lets you use a function other than :func:`open` to open the input files. Once you're iterating over the set of files, the :class:`FileInput` object's new :meth:`fileno` returns the file descriptor for the currently opened file. (Contributed by Georg Brandl.) |