Issue 19627: python open built-in function - "updating" is not defined (original) (raw)

Created on 2013-11-16 18:53 by Bulwersator, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (9)
msg203075 - (view)	Author: (Bulwersator)	Date: 2013-11-16 18:53
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1466000/python-open-built-in-function-difference-between-modes-a-a-w-w-and-r - "The Python docs conveniently leave out the crucial explanation that "open the file for updating" means "opens the file for both reading and writing", which answers my question."
msg203873 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2013-11-22 20:58
Would you like to propose a patch to the documentation? It’s possible that “updating” is explained in one place but not everywhere (doc for open, doc for io, doc about file objects).
msg204289 - (view)	Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) *	Date: 2013-11-25 03:23
Is the doc in 3.4 (http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functions.html#open) clear enough? If so it could be backported on 2.7/3.3.
msg204304 - (view)	Author: (Bulwersator)	Date: 2013-11-25 07:50
yes, "open a disk file for updating (reading and writing)" is a good explanation
msg211198 - (view)	Author: Ezio Melotti (ezio.melotti) *	Date: 2014-02-14 04:57
This seems to be in 3.3 already, so only 2.7 is left.
msg213111 - (view)	Author: Lina Clark (linaclark) *	Date: 2014-03-11 01:51
I uploaded a patch to reflect reading and writing in the python 2.7 documentation for 'updating'.
msg213202 - (view)	Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev)	Date: 2014-03-12 06:16
New changeset 1f823c1559bd by Éric Araujo in branch '2.7': Define what “updating” means in docs for open (#19627). http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/1f823c1559bd
msg213203 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2014-03-12 06:23
Edited slightly and committed, thank you!
msg213210 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2014-03-12 07:44
Can this be closed?