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Title: Confusing sentence in file.readline() doc
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Components: Documentation Versions: Python 2.7
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: benjamin.peterson, docs@python, scop
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Created on 2011-02-24 21:41 by scop, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg129316 - (view) Author: Ville Skyttä (scop) * Date: 2011-02-24 21:41
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#file.readline

"An empty string is returned only when EOF is encountered immediately."

I think this sentence is misleading especially because the word "only" in it is emphasized, because an empty string is also returned when the size argument is 0 (except for StringIO but I think that's a bug, see #11311).  I suggest rephrasing it as:

"An empty string is returned only when EOF is encountered immediately or the size argument is zero."

...or just removing the sentence altogether.  Text before it already covers the size=0 case.
msg130707 - (view) Author: Benjamin Peterson (benjamin.peterson) * (Python committer) Date: 2011-03-12 23:14
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resolution: fixed
2011-02-24 21:41:43scopcreate