From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:33:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~228
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e40ee509e35edd7dcab4009c4a65efc626527bb8;p=python

#9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index a7a9e47484..8089df15a2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    :meth:`__index__` method that returns an integer.
 
 
-.. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=None, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)
+.. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)
 
    Open *file* and return a corresponding stream.  If the file cannot be opened,
    an :exc:`IOError` is raised.
diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
index e20a2f6e44..733a7b95d7 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ PyObject *PyExc_BlockingIOError = (PyObject *)&_PyExc_BlockingIOError;
  * The main open() function
  */
 PyDoc_STRVAR(open_doc,
-"open(file, mode='r', buffering=None, encoding=None,\n"
+"open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None,\n"
 "     errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True) -> file object\n"
 "\n"
 "Open file and return a stream.  Raise IOError upon failure.\n"