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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ builtin open function is defined in this module.
At the top of the I/O hierarchy is the abstract base class IOBase. It
defines the basic interface to a stream. Note, however, that there is no
separation between reading and writing to streams; implementations are
-allowed to throw an IOError if they do not support a given operation.
+allowed to raise an IOError if they do not support a given operation.
Extending IOBase is RawIOBase which deals simply with the reading and
writing of raw bytes to a stream. FileIO subclasses RawIOBase to provide
@@ -34,15 +34,6 @@ DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE
"""
# New I/O library conforming to PEP 3116.
-# XXX edge cases when switching between reading/writing
-# XXX need to support 1 meaning line-buffered
-# XXX whenever an argument is None, use the default value
-# XXX read/write ops should check readable/writable
-# XXX buffered readinto should work with arbitrary buffer objects
-# XXX use incremental encoder for text output, at least for UTF-16 and UTF-8-SIG
-# XXX check writable, readable and seekable in appropriate places
-
-
__author__ = ("Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>, "
"Mike Verdone <mike.verdone@gmail.com>, "
"Mark Russell <mark.russell@zen.co.uk>, "