diff Misc/python.man @ 84811:4b33f74ab0f1 3.3

#16937: document that stdin is always buffered, even when -u is used. Patch by Elena Oat.
author Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com>
date Thu, 25 Jul 2013 05:04:02 +0200
parents dfead0696a71
children dd0d751cc7f1
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--- a/Misc/python.man	Wed Jul 24 21:02:17 2013 +0200
+++ b/Misc/python.man	Thu Jul 25 05:04:02 2013 +0200
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@
 is explicitly imported later.
 .TP
 .B \-u
-Force the binary I/O layers of stdin, stdout and stderr to be unbuffered.
+Force the binary I/O layers of stdout and stderr to be unbuffered.
+stdin is always buffered.
 The text I/O layer will still be line-buffered.
 .\" Note that there is internal buffering in readlines() and
 .\" file-object iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not