From be7ff9f2f9d659fb2061b373a9788a777a23b4b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 22:48:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Issue #20423: fix documentation of io.StringIO's newline parameter --- Doc/library/io.rst | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index bd0ce67470..3d723c09db 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -844,13 +844,14 @@ Text I/O Whether line buffering is enabled. -.. class:: StringIO(initial_value='', newline=None) +.. class:: StringIO(initial_value='', newline='\\n') An in-memory stream for text I/O. 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:`TextIOWrapper`. The default is to consider only ``\n`` characters + as end of lines and to do no newline translation. :class:`StringIO` provides this method in addition to those from :class:`TextIOBase` and its parents: -- 2.40.0