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this seems to be pointlessly nested

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Benjamin Peterson 2011-02-24 02:46:00 +00:00
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@ -785,17 +785,14 @@ Text I/O
inherits :class:`codecs.IncrementalDecoder`.
Advanced topics
---------------
Here we will discuss several advanced topics pertaining to the concrete
I/O implementations described above.
Performance
^^^^^^^^^^^
-----------
This section discusses the performance of the provided concrete IO
implementations.
Binary I/O
""""""""""
^^^^^^^^^^
By reading and writing only large chunks of data even when the user asks
for a single byte, buffered I/O is designed to hide any inefficiency in
@ -808,7 +805,7 @@ platform and the backing device. Therefore, it is most always preferable to
use buffered I/O rather than unbuffered I/O.
Text I/O
""""""""
^^^^^^^^
Text I/O over a binary storage (such as a file) is significantly slower than
binary I/O over the same storage, because it implies conversions from