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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index d9e5cfb5fc..456dd09821 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -156,11 +156,12 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. function:: chr(i) - Return the string representing a character whose Unicode code point is the integer - *i*. For example, ``chr(97)`` returns the string ``'a'``. This is the - inverse of :func:`ord`. The valid range for the argument is from 0 through - 1,114,111 (0x10FFFF in base 16). :exc:`ValueError` will be raised if *i* is - outside that range. + Return the string representing a character whose Unicode code point is the + integer *i*. For example, ``chr(97)`` returns the string ``'a'``, while + ``chr(957)`` returns the string ``'ν'``. This is the inverse of :func:`ord`. + + The valid range for the argument is from 0 through 1,114,111 (0x10FFFF in + base 16). :exc:`ValueError` will be raised if *i* is outside that range. .. function:: classmethod(function) @@ -972,9 +973,11 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. Characters not supported by the encoding are replaced with the appropriate XML character reference ``&#nnn;``. - * ``'backslashreplace'`` (also only supported when writing) - replaces unsupported characters with Python's backslashed escape - sequences. + * ``'backslashreplace'`` replaces malformed data by Python's backslashed + escape sequences. + + * ``'namereplace'`` (also only supported when writing) + replaces unsupported characters with ``\N{...}`` escape sequences. .. index:: single: universal newlines; open() built-in function @@ -999,8 +1002,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. If *closefd* is ``False`` and a file descriptor rather than a filename was given, the underlying file descriptor will be kept open when the file is - closed. If a filename is given *closefd* has no effect and must be ``True`` - (the default). + closed. If a filename is given *closefd* must be ``True`` (the default) + otherwise an error will be raised. A custom opener can be used by passing a callable as *opener*. The underlying file descriptor for the file object is then obtained by calling *opener* with @@ -1062,14 +1065,18 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. The ``'U'`` mode. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5 + If the system call is interrupted and the signal handler does not raise an + exception, the function now retries the system call instead of raising an + :exc:`InterruptedError` exception (see :pep:`475` for the rationale). + -.. XXX works for bytes too, but should it? .. function:: ord(c) Given a string representing one Unicode character, return an integer - representing the Unicode code - point of that character. For example, ``ord('a')`` returns the integer ``97`` - and ``ord('\u2020')`` returns ``8224``. This is the inverse of :func:`chr`. + representing the Unicode code point of that character. For example, + ``ord('a')`` returns the integer ``97`` and ``ord('ν')`` returns ``957``. + This is the inverse of :func:`chr`. .. function:: pow(x, y[, z]) |