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author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-09-15 11:11:28 +0000 |
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committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2010-09-15 11:11:28 +0000 |
commit | 11cb961b38550443d287b2b55174e504c2309af2 (patch) | |
tree | 51b2972800e593dde1b5f5154b9b044058a350d7 /Doc/library/aifc.rst | |
parent | 6a11a98b7c8f576d7663182cbd09123eb108a928 (diff) | |
download | cpython-git-11cb961b38550443d287b2b55174e504c2309af2.tar.gz |
Add cross-references to the glossary entry for file objects.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/aifc.rst b/Doc/library/aifc.rst index bdd3517bed..304437d9a2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/aifc.rst +++ b/Doc/library/aifc.rst @@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ Module :mod:`aifc` defines the following function: .. function:: open(file, mode=None) Open an AIFF or AIFF-C file and return an object instance with methods that are - described below. The argument *file* is either a string naming a file or a file - object. *mode* must be ``'r'`` or ``'rb'`` when the file must be opened for - reading, or ``'w'`` or ``'wb'`` when the file must be opened for writing. If - omitted, ``file.mode`` is used if it exists, otherwise ``'rb'`` is used. When + described below. The argument *file* is either a string naming a file or a + :term:`file object`. *mode* must be ``'r'`` or ``'rb'`` when the file must be + opened for reading, or ``'w'`` or ``'wb'`` when the file must be opened for writing. + If omitted, ``file.mode`` is used if it exists, otherwise ``'rb'`` is used. When used for writing, the file object should be seekable, unless you know ahead of time how many samples you are going to write in total and use :meth:`writeframesraw` and :meth:`setnframes`. |