bpo-14014: Clarify StreamWriter.reset() documentation (GH-13716)
diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index a026513..3169ae5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -697,7 +697,7 @@
.. method:: reset()
- Flushes and resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
+ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping internal state.
Calling this method should ensure that the data on the output is put into
a clean state that allows appending of new fresh data without having to
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@
.. method:: reset()
- Resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
+ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping internal state.
Note that no stream repositioning should take place. This method is
primarily intended to be able to recover from decoding errors.
diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index 3935490..e6ad6e3 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ def writelines(self, list):
def reset(self):
- """ Flushes and resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
+ """ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping internal state.
Calling this method should ensure that the data on the
output is put into a clean state, that allows appending
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ def readlines(self, sizehint=None, keepends=True):
def reset(self):
- """ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping state.
+ """ Resets the codec buffers used for keeping internal state.
Note that no stream repositioning should take place.
This method is primarily intended to be able to recover