From 4a7da9cdbc2100e5b6c8b6d9da58ee8f5a813a96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:34:52 +0000 Subject: Patch #1669331: clarify shutil.copyfileobj() behavior wrt. file position. (backport from rev. 54202) --- Doc/lib/libshutil.tex | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex b/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex index 449d741..f5c55a0 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex @@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ file type and creator codes will not be correct. is the buffer size. In particular, a negative \var{length} value means to copy the data without looping over the source data in chunks; by default the data is read in chunks to avoid uncontrolled - memory consumption. + memory consumption. Note that if the current file position of the + \var{fsrc} object is not 0, only the contents from the current file + position to the end of the file will be copied. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{copymode}{src, dst} -- cgit v0.12