Commit 8a2e22ef authored by Antoine Pitrou's avatar Antoine Pitrou

Issue #20423: fix documentation of io.StringIO's newline parameter

parent 15b67d7d
......@@ -791,14 +791,14 @@ Text I/O
Whether line buffering is enabled.
.. class:: StringIO(initial_value=u'', newline=None)
.. class:: StringIO(initial_value=u'', newline=u'\\n')
An in-memory stream for unicode text. It inherits :class:`TextIOWrapper`.
The initial value of the buffer (an empty unicode string by default) can
be set by providing *initial_value*. The *newline* argument works like
that of :class:`TextIOWrapper`. The default is to do no newline
translation.
that of :class:`TextIOWrapper`. The default is to consider only ``\n``
characters as end of lines and to do no newline translation.
:class:`StringIO` provides this method in addition to those from
:class:`TextIOWrapper` and its parents:
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