#9184: fix default value for "buffering" param of open().
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index a7a9e47..8089df1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@
:meth:`__index__` method that returns an integer.
-.. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=None, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)
+.. function:: open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True)
Open *file* and return a corresponding stream. If the file cannot be opened,
an :exc:`IOError` is raised.
diff --git a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
index e20a2f6..733a7b9 100644
--- a/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_io/_iomodule.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
* The main open() function
*/
PyDoc_STRVAR(open_doc,
-"open(file, mode='r', buffering=None, encoding=None,\n"
+"open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None,\n"
" errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True) -> file object\n"
"\n"
"Open file and return a stream. Raise IOError upon failure.\n"