From deea701b7f9922e0991b129e84644c2d6b0995ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 20:03:56 -0700 Subject: Doc: Add a link to tutorial page from `open()` doc (GH-21737) Adds a link to the "Reading and Writing Files" page so users can more easily discover how file handles are handled with the `with` context manager vs without it. (cherry picked from commit 705f14556545699ab615ec98f707b438f9603767) Co-authored-by: Benjamin Kane --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index e9c92f7..d0f6072 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1041,7 +1041,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True, opener=None) Open *file* and return a corresponding :term:`file object`. If the file - cannot be opened, an :exc:`OSError` is raised. + cannot be opened, an :exc:`OSError` is raised. See + :ref:`tut-files` for more examples of how to use this function. *file* is a :term:`path-like object` giving the pathname (absolute or relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or an -- cgit v0.12