From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:55:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: FileIO.readinto() isn't going anywhere
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a1~18
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a8082f107d3fd3599c2f21a130413030e3d4cfe;p=python

FileIO.readinto() isn't going anywhere
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 0bd325a84d..b0b898dfc9 100644
--- 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 4b382fb729..fd35d69879 100644
--- 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"