About section "7.2.1. Methods of File Objects" of the tutorial: 1. Method read() is documented as follows: reads some quantity of data and returns it as a string or bytes object. Indeed read() returns a string in text mode and bytes in binary mode. For the sake of clarity, I suggest changing to: reads some quantity of data and returns it as a string (in text mode) or bytes object (in binary mode). This might seem long-winded but I believe it would help those moving from Python 2 to Python 3. 2. Method write() is documented as follows: To write something other than a string, it needs to be converted to a string first While this is correct in text mode, it is wrong in binary mode. May I suggest: To write something other than a string (in text mode) or bytes object (in binary mode), it needs to be converted first
I also think that for better clarification, binary mode and text mode should be specified clearly for both methods read() and write(). For read(), I have changed it to: ' some quantity of data and returns it as a string (in text mode) or bytes object (in binary mode).' For write(), I have changed it to: ' To write something other than a string (in text mode) or bytes object (in binary mode), it needs to be converted first to string or bytes object respectively. ' Please if someone could review it, as I have not submitted a patch related to docs before. And I am not sure, if I have made correct changes at right place.
Lines should be kept to about 80 chars. Both chunks needs a newline added. I think it okay to create short lines rather than re-wrapping the whole paragraph.
Fixed, thanks Dimistri for the report, Upendra for the patch, Terry for the review, and Elena for the rewrapping! I also rephrased the last sentence a bit to make it more readable.
