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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/ACKS.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/mmap.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 |
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diff --git a/Doc/ACKS.txt b/Doc/ACKS.txt index 58896b0e79..774192e812 100644 --- a/Doc/ACKS.txt +++ b/Doc/ACKS.txt @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ docs@python.org), and we'll be glad to correct the problem. * Sjoerd Mullender * Dale Nagata * Michal Nowikowski + * Steffen Daode Nurpmeso * Ng Pheng Siong * Koray Oner * Tomas Oppelstrup diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst index f036a60ce0..55861f9428 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ file object, use its :meth:`fileno` method to obtain the correct value for the :func:`os.open` function, which returns a file descriptor directly (the file still needs to be closed when done). +.. note:: + If you want to create a memory-mapping for a writable, buffered file, you + should :func:`~io.IOBase.flush` the file first. This is necessary to ensure + that local modifications to the buffers are actually available to the + mapping. + For both the Unix and Windows versions of the constructor, *access* may be specified as an optional keyword parameter. *access* accepts one of three values: :const:`ACCESS_READ`, :const:`ACCESS_WRITE`, or :const:`ACCESS_COPY` @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used + with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso. + - Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling. - Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup and setting/getting locales under Turkish |