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@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ I/O Base Classes
A :exc:`BlockingIOError` is raised if the underlying raw stream is in
non blocking-mode, and has no data available at the moment.
- .. method:: read1(size=-1)
+ .. method:: read1([size])
Read and return up to *size* bytes, with at most one call to the
underlying raw stream's :meth:`~RawIOBase.read` (or
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ I/O Base Classes
implementing your own buffering on top of a :class:`BufferedIOBase`
object.
+ If *size* is ``-1`` (the default), an arbitrary number of bytes are
+ returned (more than zero unless EOF is reached).
+
.. method:: readinto(b)
Read bytes into a pre-allocated, writable
@@ -628,13 +631,16 @@ than raw I/O does.
Return :class:`bytes` containing the entire contents of the buffer.
- .. method:: read1()
+ .. method:: read1([size])
+
+ In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`~BufferedIOBase.read`.
- In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`read`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ The *size* argument is now optional.
- .. method:: readinto1()
+ .. method:: readinto1(b)
- In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`readinto`.
+ In :class:`BytesIO`, this is the same as :meth:`~BufferedIOBase.readinto`.
.. versionadded:: 3.5
@@ -664,12 +670,15 @@ than raw I/O does.
Read and return *size* bytes, or if *size* is not given or negative, until
EOF or if the read call would block in non-blocking mode.
- .. method:: read1(size)
+ .. method:: read1([size])
Read and return up to *size* bytes with only one call on the raw stream.
If at least one byte is buffered, only buffered bytes are returned.
Otherwise, one raw stream read call is made.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ The *size* argument is now optional.
+
.. class:: BufferedWriter(raw, buffer_size=DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE)