commit e02ca4270ef258162215e345c23025bec27f9eb0
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Tue Sep 11 11:59:29 2018 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue Sep 11 11:59:29 2018 -0700
tree 49e5865288927a77bd11557298c41c4e8121db87
parent 3e648f8371e342ccfa663ad77e82a538fcc8c9fb

bpo-34613: document the correct value of limit argument of asyncio.StreamReader (GH-9121)


The default value of asyncio.StreamReader *limit* is `_DEFAULT_LIMIT` instead of `None`.

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https://bugs.python.org/issue34613
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(cherry picked from commit b4ec36200a959da70eba94c19826446a8efdffdd)

Co-authored-by: Bram <cortex@worlddomination.be>

Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
index f662e72..ca7daab 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
@@ -126,10 +126,12 @@
 StreamReader
 ============
 
-.. class:: StreamReader(limit=None, loop=None)
+.. class:: StreamReader(limit=_DEFAULT_LIMIT, loop=None)
 
    This class is :ref:`not thread safe <asyncio-multithreading>`.
 
+   The *limit* argument's default value is set to _DEFAULT_LIMIT which is 2**16 (64 KiB)
+
    .. method:: exception()
 
       Get the exception.