bpo-25415: Remove confusing sentence from IOBase docstrings (PR-31631)
(cherry picked from commit cedd2473a9bebe07f3ced4f341cf58a2fef07b03)
Co-authored-by: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index de88c57..d512334 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -306,8 +306,7 @@
.. class:: IOBase
- The abstract base class for all I/O classes, acting on streams of bytes.
- There is no public constructor.
+ The abstract base class for all I/O classes.
This class provides empty abstract implementations for many methods
that derived classes can override selectively; the default
@@ -461,8 +460,7 @@
.. class:: RawIOBase
- Base class for raw binary streams. It inherits :class:`IOBase`. There is no
- public constructor.
+ Base class for raw binary streams. It inherits :class:`IOBase`.
Raw binary streams typically provide low-level access to an underlying OS
device or API, and do not try to encapsulate it in high-level primitives
@@ -515,7 +513,7 @@
.. class:: BufferedIOBase
Base class for binary streams that support some kind of buffering.
- It inherits :class:`IOBase`. There is no public constructor.
+ It inherits :class:`IOBase`.
The main difference with :class:`RawIOBase` is that methods :meth:`read`,
:meth:`readinto` and :meth:`write` will try (respectively) to read as much
@@ -852,8 +850,7 @@
.. class:: TextIOBase
Base class for text streams. This class provides a character and line based
- interface to stream I/O. It inherits :class:`IOBase`. There is no public
- constructor.
+ interface to stream I/O. It inherits :class:`IOBase`.
:class:`TextIOBase` provides or overrides these data attributes and
methods in addition to those from :class:`IOBase`: