This shameful limitation of the fileinput module is not relevant anymore.

diff --git a/Doc/library/fileinput.rst b/Doc/library/fileinput.rst
index daefd99560e62710e3b541559960a1225e1f119a..f8ec4368e170f304772b02ae4bddfdfabff49345 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/fileinput.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fileinput.rst
@@ -171,10 +171,6 @@ and the backup file remains around; by default, the extension is ``'.bak'`` and
 it is deleted when the output file is closed.  In-place filtering is disabled
 when standard input is read.
 
-.. note::
-
-   The current implementation does not work for MS-DOS 8+3 filesystems.
-
 
 The two following opening hooks are provided by this module: