From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:37:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: update peek documentation to implementation
X-Git-Tag: v3.1~47
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2a8b54d29cc943e7b8bc493d5500463b0e0af5ff;p=python

update peek documentation to implementation
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 26285b4fcd..67a8d4d85d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -504,11 +504,9 @@ Buffered Streams
 
    .. method:: peek([n])
 
-      Return 1 (or *n* if specified) bytes from a buffer without advancing the
-      position.  Only a single read on the raw stream is done to satisfy the
-      call. The number of bytes returned may be less than requested since at
-      most all the buffer's bytes from the current position to the end are
-      returned.
+      Return bytes from the stream without advancing the position.  Only a
+      single read on the raw stream is done to satisfy the call. The number of
+      bytes returned may be less or more than requested.
 
    .. method:: read([n])