From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 01:51:34 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: document IOBase.__del__'s behavior (closes #21764)
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document IOBase.__del__'s behavior (closes #21764)

Patch from Nikolaus Rath.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 79f65e0007..0c7d3c7f6b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -353,6 +353,12 @@ I/O Base Classes
       is usual for each of the lines provided to have a line separator at the
       end.
 
+   .. method:: __del__()
+
+      Prepare for object destruction. :class:`IOBase` provides a default
+      implementation of this method that calls the instance's
+      :meth:`~IOBase.close` method.
+
 
 .. class:: RawIOBase