From 689405ee14b5f33d4717b06d258e8dd4f5332f72 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antoine Pitrou Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 19:57:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify and fix the documentation for IOBase.close() --- Doc/library/io.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst index 9f08c25219c..4554b1ef9a3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/io.rst +++ b/Doc/library/io.rst @@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ I/O Base Classes Flush and close this stream. This method has no effect if the file is already closed. Once the file is closed, any operation on the file - (e.g. reading or writing) will raise an :exc:`IOError`. The internal - file descriptor isn't closed if *closefd* was False. + (e.g. reading or writing) will raise an :exc:`ValueError`. + + As a convenience, it is allowed to call this method more than once; + only the first call, however, will have an effect. .. attribute:: closed