From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 04:57:34 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document "print >> None"
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Document "print >> None"
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
index 182148532cfd..ddeb30d3816d 100644
--- a/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
+++ b/Doc/ref/ref6.tex
@@ -338,9 +338,10 @@ print_stmt: '>>' expression [ (',' expression)+ [','] ] )
 
 In this form, the first expression after the \keyword{>>} must
 evaluate to a ``file-like'' object, specifically an object that has a
-\method{write()} method as described above.  With the extended form,
-the subsequent expressions are printed to this file-like object
-instead of \code{sys.stdout}.
+\method{write()} method as described above.  With this extended form,
+the subsequent expressions are printed to this file object.  If the
+first expression evaluates to \code{None}, then \code{sys.stdout} is
+used as the file for output.
 
 \section{The \keyword{return} statement \label{return}}
 \stindex{return}