From 103728dc151e3797b1b94c635b0bcd9b52c03217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:15:54 +0100 Subject: [3.12] gh-59254: mention in open() doc that line buffering is for writing (GH-112318) (#112378) gh-59254: mention in open() doc that line buffering is for writing (GH-112318) (cherry picked from commit fafae08cc7caa25f2bd6b29106b50ef76c3e296f) Co-authored-by: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 954c7c0..c86963b4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. *buffering* is an optional integer used to set the buffering policy. Pass 0 to switch buffering off (only allowed in binary mode), 1 to select line - buffering (only usable in text mode), and an integer > 1 to indicate the size + buffering (only usable when writing in text mode), and an integer > 1 to indicate the size in bytes of a fixed-size chunk buffer. Note that specifying a buffer size this way applies for binary buffered I/O, but ``TextIOWrapper`` (i.e., files opened with ``mode='r+'``) would have another buffering. To disable buffering in -- cgit v0.12