svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k
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r84677 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-09-10 13:50:38 -0500 (Fri, 10 Sep 2010) | 1 line
add reference to file object
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All functions in this module take a file descriptor *fd* as their first
argument. This can be an integer file descriptor, such as returned by
-``sys.stdin.fileno()``, or a file object, such as ``sys.stdin`` itself, which
-provides a :meth:`fileno` which returns a genuine file descriptor.
+``sys.stdin.fileno()``, or a :class:`io.IOBase` object, such as ``sys.stdin``
+itself, which provides a :meth:`fileno` that returns a genuine file descriptor.
The module defines the following functions: