From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 16:05:01 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and
X-Git-Tag: 2.1~41
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0a674f8d445007cd175d2970c197364cee34ef5;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add a note explaining the interaction between unbuffered input and
xreadlines.xreadlines().
This closes SF patch #552804.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex b/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex
index d824fc3e8c63..1b8a341c2c7c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libxreadlines.tex
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ former case.
 \begin{funcdesc}{xreadlines}{fileobj}
   Return a new xreadlines object which will iterate over the contents
   of \var{fileobj}.  \var{fileobj} must have a \method{readlines()}
-  method that supports the \var{sizehint} parameter.
+  method that supports the \var{sizehint} parameter.  \strong{Note:}
+  Because the \method{readlines()} method buffers data, this
+  effectively ignores the effects of setting the file object as
+  unbuffered.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 An xreadlines object \var{s} supports the following sequence