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author | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2017-02-04 15:05:40 -0800 |
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committer | Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com> | 2017-02-04 15:05:40 -0800 |
commit | b2fa705fd3887c326e811c418469c784353027f4 (patch) | |
tree | b3428f73de91453edbfd4df1a5d4a212d182eb44 /Doc/library/mmap.rst | |
parent | 134e58fd3aaa2e91390041e143f3f0a21a60142b (diff) | |
parent | b53654b6dbfce8318a7d4d1cdaddca7a7fec194b (diff) | |
download | cpython-b2fa705fd3887c326e811c418469c784353027f4.tar.gz |
Issue #29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/mmap.rst b/Doc/library/mmap.rst index 2f2945fa1e..f46bf66db2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mmap.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mmap.rst @@ -264,13 +264,18 @@ To map anonymous memory, -1 should be passed as the fileno along with the length .. method:: write(bytes) Write the bytes in *bytes* into memory at the current position of the - file pointer; the file position is updated to point after the bytes that - were written. If the mmap was created with :const:`ACCESS_READ`, then + file pointer and return the number of bytes written (never less than + ``len(bytes)``, since if the write fails, a :exc:`ValueError` will be + raised). The file position is updated to point after the bytes that + were written. If the mmap was created with :const:`ACCESS_READ`, then writing to it will raise a :exc:`TypeError` exception. .. versionchanged:: 3.5 Writable :term:`bytes-like object` is now accepted. + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 + The number of bytes written is now returned. + .. method:: write_byte(byte) |