From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 02:02:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: fix StringIO constructor docs #5452
X-Git-Tag: v3.1a2~302
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa1c8d88992d482f90268f2352fccb6e74d87279;p=python

fix StringIO constructor docs #5452
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index cfd1af5d6b..6ce28d032a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -637,13 +637,13 @@ Text I/O
       Whether line buffering is enabled.
 
 
-.. class:: StringIO([initial_value[, encoding[, errors[, newline]]]])
+.. class:: StringIO([initial_value[, newline]])
 
    An in-memory stream for text.  It inherits :class:`TextIOWrapper`.
 
-   Create a new StringIO stream with an initial value, encoding, error handling,
-   and newline setting.  See :class:`TextIOWrapper`\'s constructor for more
-   information.
+   The initial value of the buffer (an empty string by default) can be set by
+   providing *initial_value*.  The *newline* argument works like that of
+   :class:`TextIOWrapper`.  The default is to do no newline translation.
 
    :class:`StringIO` provides this method in addition to those from
    :class:`TextIOWrapper` and its parents: