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| author | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2013-07-25 05:04:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> | 2013-07-25 05:04:02 +0200 |
| commit | 61b0c672b5e9ba1cf564947ecb38d175fd70ea7e (patch) | |
| tree | ab808b8fae0a02137111cb1edf13fdbba7da7caa /Misc/python.man | |
| parent | 72f562f719ee59b79e2fa0e2efe27591c75fde26 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-61b0c672b5e9ba1cf564947ecb38d175fd70ea7e.tar.gz | |
#16937: document that stdin is always buffered, even when -u is used. Patch by Elena Oat.
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diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man index 8155e6a447..bcb3ec8723 100644 --- a/Misc/python.man +++ b/Misc/python.man @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ that it entails. Also disable these manipulations if is explicitly imported later. .TP .B \-u -Force the binary I/O layers of stdin, stdout and stderr to be unbuffered. +Force the binary I/O layers of stdout and stderr to be unbuffered. +stdin is always buffered. The text I/O layer will still be line-buffered. .\" Note that there is internal buffering in readlines() and .\" file-object iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not |