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Author scop
Recipients docs@python, scop
Date 2011-02-24.21:41:43
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Content 
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.
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2011-02-24 21:41:48scopsetrecipients: + scop, docs@python
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