From: Andrew M. Kuchling Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:50:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Tweak wording X-Git-Tag: v2.6b2~120 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5d2b4ce930666c9f58c9c7da1744388143860df;p=python Tweak wording --- diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst index 8cc3722b8d..2da9f9f9d7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2055,12 +2055,12 @@ Files have the following methods: files, like ttys, it makes sense to continue reading after an EOF is hit.) Note that this method may call the underlying C function :cfunc:`fread` more than once in an effort to acquire as close to *size* bytes as possible. Also note - that when in non-blocking mode, less data than what was requested may be + that when in non-blocking mode, less data than was requested may be returned, even if no *size* parameter was given. .. note:: - As this function depends of the underlying C function :cfunc:`fread`, - it resembles its behaviour in details like caching EOF and others. + As this function depends on the underlying :cfunc:`fread` C function, + it will behave the same in details such as caching EOF. .. method:: file.readline([size])