From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 07:59:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Doc: fix example for iter() function. (GH-11959) X-Git-Tag: v3.7.3rc1~62 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=92ac01b104b80f9251fcb17ab4cc1845c1f91ac2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Doc: fix example for iter() function. (GH-11959) read() returns bytes for a file opened in binary mode, so b'' should be used as a sentinel instead of ''. Otherwise the loop will be infinite. (cherry picked from commit 11fa0e48a958716186eb99348a46064e944eccf6) Co-authored-by: Cristian Ciupitu --- diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index abf3e26d9e8d..b28f28f2142a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. from functools import partial with open('mydata.db', 'rb') as f: - for block in iter(partial(f.read, 64), ''): + for block in iter(partial(f.read, 64), b''): process_block(block)