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| author | Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> | 2008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa@gmail.com> | 2008-11-20 23:34:31 +0000 |
| commit | 322656596abfd772b0573731a78676f4a16f2d34 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e138ae18baa1dee3ff6fd9a823cfacc5e67d62b /Doc | |
| parent | ad100c3acb566a8a9a6094a9ace96c6399fab394 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-322656596abfd772b0573731a78676f4a16f2d34.tar.gz | |
Fixed issue #4233.
Changed semantic of _fileio.FileIO's close() method on file objects with closefd=False.
The file descriptor is still kept open but the file object behaves like a closed file.
The FileIO object also got a new readonly attribute closefd.
Approved by Barry
Backport of r67106 from the py3k branch
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/io.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 18df0e0514..25d5f16dba 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -214,8 +214,10 @@ I/O Base Classes .. method:: close() - Flush and close this stream. This method has no effect if the file is - already closed. + Flush and close this stream. This method has no effect if the file is + already closed. Once the file is closed, any operation on the file + (e.g. reading or writing) will raise an :exc:`IOError`. The internal + file descriptor isn't closed if *closefd* was False. .. attribute:: closed |