From: Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:34:04 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: #17881: clarify documentation of plistlib.
X-Git-Tag: v3.3.2~44
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ab6ab15e7d4191fe8ea885262d48f880b591c7e8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#17881: clarify documentation of plistlib.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/plistlib.rst b/Doc/library/plistlib.rst
index ae5e94d1a909..a26736884818 100644
--- a/Doc/library/plistlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/plistlib.rst
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ This module defines the following functions:
 
 .. function:: readPlist(pathOrFile)
 
-   Read a plist file. *pathOrFile* may either be a file name or a (readable)
-   file object.  Return the unpacked root object (which usually is a
+   Read a plist file. *pathOrFile* may either be a file name or a (readable and
+   binary) file object.  Return the unpacked root object (which usually is a
    dictionary).
 
    The XML data is parsed using the Expat parser from :mod:`xml.parsers.expat`
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ This module defines the following functions:
 .. function:: writePlist(rootObject, pathOrFile)
 
     Write *rootObject* to a plist file. *pathOrFile* may either be a file name
-    or a (writable) file object.
+    or a (writable and binary) file object.
 
     A :exc:`TypeError` will be raised if the object is of an unsupported type or
     a container that contains objects of unsupported types.