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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 19:59:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-34319: Clarify file handler closure in pathlib.read_text (GH-8645)
X-Git-Tag: v3.7.1rc1~195
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c6df83e9318ab4ef8e32b805b8226b1324e1ffd;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-34319: Clarify file handler closure in pathlib.read_text (GH-8645)


Patch by Terry Jan Reedy.
(cherry picked from commit 5b2657fb8c5aaa98e5748e1c325c74b97ea12fd1)

Co-authored-by: Xtreak <tirkarthi@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index 0929ee27c19e..ec604f681593 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -915,7 +915,8 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist):
       >>> p.read_text()
       'Text file contents'
 
-   The optional parameters have the same meaning as in :func:`open`.
+   The file is opened and then closed. The optional parameters have the same
+   meaning as in :func:`open`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 3.5