diff -r 64640a02b0ca Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c	Mon Aug 27 10:03:23 2012 +0300
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c	Tue Aug 28 01:14:09 2012 +0300
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
 "\n"
 "* On output, if newline is None, any '\\n' characters written are\n"
 "  translated to the system default line separator, os.linesep. If\n"
-"  newline is '' or '\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"
+"  newline is '' or '\\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"
 "  of the other legal values, any '\\n' characters written are translated\n"
 "  to the given string.\n"
 "\n"
diff -r 64640a02b0ca Modules/_io/iobase.c
--- a/Modules/_io/iobase.c	Mon Aug 27 10:03:23 2012 +0300
+++ b/Modules/_io/iobase.c	Tue Aug 28 01:14:09 2012 +0300
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@
     "\n"
     "If limit is specified, at most limit bytes will be read.\n"
     "\n"
-    "The line terminator is always b'\n' for binary files; for text\n"
+    "The line terminator is always b'\\n' for binary files; for text\n"
     "files, the newlines argument to open can be used to select the line\n"
     "terminator(s) recognized.\n");
 
diff -r 64640a02b0ca Modules/_io/textio.c
--- a/Modules/_io/textio.c	Mon Aug 27 10:03:23 2012 +0300
+++ b/Modules/_io/textio.c	Tue Aug 28 01:14:09 2012 +0300
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@
     "\n"
     "* On output, if newline is None, any '\\n' characters written are\n"
     "  translated to the system default line separator, os.linesep. If\n"
-    "  newline is '' or '\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"
+    "  newline is '' or '\\n', no translation takes place. If newline is any\n"
     "  of the other legal values, any '\\n' characters written are translated\n"
     "  to the given string.\n"
     "\n"