Issue #18315: Improve fileinput docs by adding 'bufsize' where missing and
replacing redundant signature in input() docstring with one-line summary.
Original patch by Terrel Shumway.
diff --git a/Lib/fileinput.py b/Lib/fileinput.py
index ba48575..04e97bd 100644
--- a/Lib/fileinput.py
+++ b/Lib/fileinput.py
@@ -90,12 +90,11 @@
def input(files=None, inplace=0, backup="", bufsize=0,
mode="r", openhook=None):
- """input([files[, inplace[, backup[, mode[, openhook]]]]])
+ """Return an instance of the FileInput class, which can be iterated.
- Create an instance of the FileInput class. The instance will be used
- as global state for the functions of this module, and is also returned
- to use during iteration. The parameters to this function will be passed
- along to the constructor of the FileInput class.
+ The parameters are passed to the constructor of the FileInput class.
+ The returned instance, in addition to being an iterator,
+ keeps global state for the functions of this module,.
"""
global _state
if _state and _state._file:
@@ -182,7 +181,7 @@
return _state.isstdin()
class FileInput:
- """class FileInput([files[, inplace[, backup[, mode[, openhook]]]]])
+ """FileInput([files[, inplace[, backup[, bufsize[, mode[, openhook]]]]]])
Class FileInput is the implementation of the module; its methods
filename(), lineno(), fileline(), isfirstline(), isstdin(), fileno(),