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Diffstat (limited to 'Modules/_io/iobase.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/_io/iobase.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/_io/iobase.c b/Modules/_io/iobase.c index 61756d0..710ada4 100644 --- a/Modules/_io/iobase.c +++ b/Modules/_io/iobase.c @@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(iobase_doc, "may raise a IOError when operations they do not support are called.\n" "\n" "The basic type used for binary data read from or written to a file is\n" - "bytes. bytearrays are accepted too, and in some cases (such as\n" - "readinto) needed. Text I/O classes work with str data.\n" + "the bytes type. Method arguments may also be bytearray or memoryview\n" + "of arrays of bytes. In some cases, such as readinto, a writable\n" + "object such as bytearray is required. Text I/O classes work with\n" + "unicode data.\n" "\n" "Note that calling any method (except additional calls to close(),\n" "which are ignored) on a closed stream should raise a ValueError.\n" |