New submission from Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi>: http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.readline
"An empty string is returned only when EOF is encountered immediately." I think this sentence is misleading especially because the word "only" in it is emphasized, because an empty string is also returned when the size argument is 0 (except for StringIO but I think that's a bug, see #11311). I suggest rephrasing it as: "An empty string is returned only when EOF is encountered immediately or the size argument is zero." ...or just removing the sentence altogether. Text before it already covers the size=0 case. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 129316 nosy: docs@python, scop priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Confusing sentence in file.readline() doc versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11312> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
