From 5054ae23ce9e5b6e43d9da4d9a4e3ed7fd9ab8e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2022 11:21:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-64921: Clarify wording for open()'s newline arg (GH-96171) (cherry picked from commit 4a74e6ab3885e7906cc5e0b15addc7779bc76249) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index d84977fd860d..86b88c0c552c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1244,8 +1244,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. _open-newline-parameter: - *newline* controls how :term:`universal newlines` mode works (it only - applies to text mode). It can be ``None``, ``''``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r'``, and + *newline* determines how to parse newline characters from the stream. + It can be ``None``, ``''``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r'``, and ``'\r\n'``. It works as follows: * When reading input from the stream, if *newline* is ``None``, universal -- 2.47.3