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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/fileinput.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/fileinput.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py index f9bb88a..3215154 100644 --- a/Lib/fileinput.py +++ b/Lib/fileinput.py @@ -90,13 +90,11 @@ DEFAULT_BUFSIZE = 8*1024 def input(files=None, inplace=False, backup="", bufsize=0, mode="r", openhook=None): - """input(files=None, inplace=False, backup="", bufsize=0, \ -mode="r", openhook=None) + """Return an instance of the FileInput class, which can be iterated. - Create an instance of the FileInput class. The instance will be used - as global state for the functions of this module, and is also returned - to use during iteration. The parameters to this function will be passed - along to the constructor of the FileInput class. + The parameters are passed to the constructor of the FileInput class. + The returned instance, in addition to being an iterator, + keeps global state for the functions of this module,. """ global _state if _state and _state._file: @@ -183,7 +181,7 @@ def isstdin(): return _state.isstdin() class FileInput: - """class FileInput([files[, inplace[, backup[, mode[, openhook]]]]]) + """FileInput([files[, inplace[, backup[, bufsize, [, mode[, openhook]]]]]]) Class FileInput is the implementation of the module; its methods filename(), lineno(), fileline(), isfirstline(), isstdin(), fileno(), |