FileIO.readinto() isn't going anywhere

diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 0bd325a84dab031d80474e3d73ef10642451ea20..b0b898dfc929177f1cc29a015aae8cce3f58439b 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -438,9 +438,6 @@ Raw File I/O
       the number actually written. Only one system call is made, so it
       is possible that only some of the data is written.
 
-   Note that the inherited ``readinto()`` method should not be used on
-   :class:`FileIO` objects.
-
 
 Buffered Streams
 ----------------

diff --git a/Modules/_fileio.c b/Modules/_fileio.c
index 4b382fb72988205e38b73827ba8f231c1f9c7cd5..fd35d69879d4150af47e9f0a785241f05cdf499b 100644 (file)
--- a/Modules/_fileio.c
+++ b/Modules/_fileio.c
@@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(tell_doc,
 "tell() -> int.         Current file position");
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(readinto_doc,
-"readinto() -> Undocumented.  Don't use this; it may go away.");
+"readinto() -> Same as RawIOBase.readinto().");
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(close_doc,
 "close() -> None.  Close the file.\n"