From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 03:26:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note that when inplace=1 existing backup files will be removed silently.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.1c1~143
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c6cddfa931a6c0d8ce6e453965f08a00391b5540;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Note that when inplace=1 existing backup files will be removed silently.
Closes SF bug #420230.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfileinput.tex b/Doc/lib/libfileinput.tex
index 97caaf9e462f..c66501f21ddf 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfileinput.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfileinput.tex
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ The following function is the primary interface of this module:
                        inplace\optional{, backup}}}}
   Create an instance of the \class{FileInput} class.  The instance
   will be used as global state for the functions of this module, and
-  is also returned to use during iteration.
+  is also returned to use during iteration.  The parameters to this
+  function will be passed along to the constructor of the
+  \class{FileInput} class.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 
@@ -118,7 +120,8 @@ module is available for subclassing as well:
 \strong{Optional in-place filtering:} if the keyword argument
 \code{\var{inplace}=1} is passed to \function{input()} or to the
 \class{FileInput} constructor, the file is moved to a backup file and
-standard output is directed to the input file.
+standard output is directed to the input file (if a file of the same
+name as the backup file already exists, it will be replaced silently).
 This makes it possible to write a filter that rewrites its input file
 in place.  If the keyword argument \code{\var{backup}='.<some
 extension>'} is also given, it specifies the extension for the backup