commit e5b47ea5859522f81599a82d49175f6fad263482
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Sat Jul 07 13:39:03 2018 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sat Jul 07 13:39:03 2018 -0700
tree fe1db2ff6ecc1924fee6f3f416cdab40948c39e1
parent c5e4c76eaa3c836b6debe9349f4fe29af673dfb3

bpo-33804: Document that the argument for io.TextIOBase.read() is optional (GH-7510)

(cherry picked from commit b6bb77c2b8e83ba6cb845c7b512ac564276e854f)

Co-authored-by: Andrés Delfino <adelfino@gmail.com>

Doc/library/io.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index f2e0fdb..98649de 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@
 
       .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
-   .. method:: read(size)
+   .. method:: read(size=-1)
 
       Read and return at most *size* characters from the stream as a single
       :class:`str`.  If *size* is negative or ``None``, reads until EOF.