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Author	jfine2358
Recipients	docs@python, jfine2358
Date	2021-07-13.14:48:39
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On Linux >>> help(open('/dev/zero').writelines) gives <built-in method writelines of _io.TextIOWrapper object at 0x7fed03d4e558> However https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.IOBase.writelines gives Write a list of lines to the stream. Line separators are not added, so it is usual for each of the lines provided to have a line separator at the end. See also request that writelines support a line separator. https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/A5FT7SVZBYAJJTIWQFTFUGNSKMVQNPVF/#A5FT7SVZBYAJJTIWQFTFUGNSKMVQNPVF

On Linux
>>> help(open('/dev/zero').writelines)
gives
<built-in method writelines of _io.TextIOWrapper object at 0x7fed03d4e558>

However
https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#io.IOBase.writelines
gives

Write a list of lines to the stream. Line separators are not added, so it is usual for each of the lines provided to have a line separator at the end.

See also request that writelines support a line separator.
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/A5FT7SVZBYAJJTIWQFTFUGNSKMVQNPVF/#A5FT7SVZBYAJJTIWQFTFUGNSKMVQNPVF

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