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| author | Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com> | 2011-07-25 07:14:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com> | 2011-07-25 07:14:15 +0200 |
| commit | fc93c9293d086d9341ffdbba378826eec4b7b739 (patch) | |
| tree | 34049d2b0870d6ed149a3e85e23f1b2144a0b490 /Doc | |
| parent | ece0fe9a5ab82cd23db25155bfd2cfc71083cfa9 (diff) | |
| parent | b0954d313eb9e0f8dbae8b6aae3ed2c4557926e7 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-fc93c9293d086d9341ffdbba378826eec4b7b739.tar.gz | |
Issue #12102: Merge with 3.2.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/mmap.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Doc/ACKS.txt b/Doc/ACKS.txt index e68826c39a..433c9ee3a4 100644 --- a/Doc/ACKS.txt +++ b/Doc/ACKS.txt @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ docs@python.org), and we'll be glad to correct the problem. * Sjoerd Mullender * Dale Nagata * Michal Nowikowski + * Steffen Daode Nurpmeso * Ng Pheng Siong * Koray Oner * Tomas Oppelstrup diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst index 7708028d97..1598cb83ac 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst @@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ file object, use its :meth:`fileno` method to obtain the correct value for the :func:`os.open` function, which returns a file descriptor directly (the file still needs to be closed when done). +.. note:: + If you want to create a memory-mapping for a writable, buffered file, you + should :func:`~io.IOBase.flush` the file first. This is necessary to ensure + that local modifications to the buffers are actually available to the + mapping. + For both the Unix and Windows versions of the constructor, *access* may be specified as an optional keyword parameter. *access* accepts one of three values: :const:`ACCESS_READ`, :const:`ACCESS_WRITE`, or :const:`ACCESS_COPY` |