| --- a/Lib/_pyio.py Wed Jan 11 21:00:48 2012 -0500 |
| +++ b/Lib/_pyio.py Thu Jan 12 07:35:13 2012 +0200 |
| @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ |
| mode is an optional string that specifies the mode in which the file is |
| opened. It defaults to 'r' which means open for reading in text mode. Other |
| common values are 'w' for writing (truncating the file if it already |
| - exists), 'x' for creating and writing to a new file, and 'a' for appending |
| + exists), 'x' for exclusive creation of a new file, and 'a' for appending |
| (which on some Unix systems, means that all writes append to the end of the |
| file regardless of the current seek position). In text mode, if encoding is |
| not specified the encoding used is platform dependent. (For reading and |