#16937: document that stdin is always buffered, even when -u is used. Patch by Elena Oat.

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Ezio Melotti 2013-07-25 05:04:02 +02:00
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@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ that it entails. Also disable these manipulations if
is explicitly imported later.
.TP
.B \-u
Force the binary I/O layers of stdin, stdout and stderr to be unbuffered.
Force the binary I/O layers of stdout and stderr to be unbuffered.
stdin is always buffered.
The text I/O layer will still be line-buffered.
.\" Note that there is internal buffering in readlines() and
.\" file-object iterators ("for line in sys.stdin") which is not