From: Andrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 20:17:16 +0000 (-0300)
Subject: bpo-33804: Document that the argument for io.TextIOBase.read() is optional (GH-7510)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a1~1414
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6bb77c2b8e83ba6cb845c7b512ac564276e854f;p=python

bpo-33804: Document that the argument for io.TextIOBase.read() is optional (GH-7510)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index f2e0fdbc5b..98649de731 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ Text I/O
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
-   .. method:: read(size)
+   .. method:: read(size=-1)
 
       Read and return at most *size* characters from the stream as a single
       :class:`str`.  If *size* is negative or ``None``, reads until EOF.