From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:16:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #8399: add note about Windows and O_BINARY.
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#8399: add note about Windows and O_BINARY.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index 0c2cab74a1e4..e5e00d06c06b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -662,7 +662,8 @@ as internal buffering of data.
 
    For a description of the flag and mode values, see the C run-time documentation;
    flag constants (like :const:`O_RDONLY` and :const:`O_WRONLY`) are defined in
-   this module too (see :ref:`open-constants`).
+   this module too (see :ref:`open-constants`).  In particular, on Windows adding
+   :const:`O_BINARY` is needed to open files in binary mode.
 
    .. note::