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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-02-20 23:59:28 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-02-20 23:59:28 -0800 |
| commit | 92ac01b104b80f9251fcb17ab4cc1845c1f91ac2 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a5bf409a62b68b2f7bc239fba2ce180e48b0ea9 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 14baf06febb9194dd76f694ec359ce94708ed861 (diff) | |
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Doc: fix example for iter() function. (GH-11959)
read() returns bytes for a file opened in binary mode,
so b'' should be used as a sentinel instead of ''.
Otherwise the loop will be infinite.
(cherry picked from commit 11fa0e48a958716186eb99348a46064e944eccf6)
Co-authored-by: Cristian Ciupitu <cristian.ciupitu@yahoo.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/functions.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index abf3e26d9e..b28f28f214 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. from functools import partial with open('mydata.db', 'rb') as f: - for block in iter(partial(f.read, 64), ''): + for block in iter(partial(f.read, 64), b''): process_block(block) |