From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:52:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify.
X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~169
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Clarify.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index 50e976b0ea10..498cbc8716a2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ Module Interface
    Open *file* and return a corresponding stream.  If the file cannot be opened,
    an :exc:`IOError` is raised.
 
-   *file* is either a string or bytes object giving the name (and the path if
-   the file isn't in the current working directory) of the file to be opened or
+   *file* is either a string or bytes object giving the pathname (absolute or
+   relative to the current working directory) of the file to be opened or
    an integer file descriptor of the file to be wrapped.  (If a file descriptor
    is given, it is closed when the returned I/O object is closed, unless
    *closefd* is set to ``False``.)