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author | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2017-02-09 16:08:17 +0100 |
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committer | Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> | 2017-02-09 16:08:17 +0100 |
commit | c6180bb73c8c7c7f9d8ea9816487b710597b6fc1 (patch) | |
tree | fb4a5c18886537b4b7df46ed3b2aa579747ff507 /Doc/library/mmap.rst | |
parent | 5e0114a832a903518c4af6983161c0c2a8942a24 (diff) | |
parent | 819a21a3a4aac38f32e1ba4f68bcef45591fa3f0 (diff) | |
download | cpython-c6180bb73c8c7c7f9d8ea9816487b710597b6fc1.tar.gz |
Merge issue #26355 fix from Python 3.5
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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) |