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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 08:59:01 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-32284: Fix documentation of BinaryIO and TextIO (GH-4832) (#4833)
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bpo-32284: Fix documentation of BinaryIO and TextIO (GH-4832) (#4833)

(cherry picked from commit c3e070f84931c847d1b35e7fb36aa71edd6215f6)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index d28a5d5484..9c4777ac2f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -774,9 +774,9 @@ The module defines the following classes, functions and decorators:
 
    Wrapper namespace for I/O stream types.
 
-   This defines the generic type ``IO[AnyStr]`` and aliases ``TextIO``
-   and ``BinaryIO`` for respectively ``IO[str]`` and ``IO[bytes]``.
-   These represent the types of I/O streams such as returned by
+   This defines the generic type ``IO[AnyStr]`` and subclasses ``TextIO``
+   and ``BinaryIO``, deriving from ``IO[str]`` and ``IO[bytes]``,
+   respectively. These represent the types of I/O streams such as returned by
    :func:`open`.
 
    These types are also accessible directly as ``typing.IO``,