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diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index ad61377476..0bb6f3aac4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -853,10 +853,10 @@ always available. stdout stderr - File objects corresponding to the interpreter's standard input, output and error - streams. ``stdin`` is used for all interpreter input except for scripts but - including calls to :func:`input`. ``stdout`` is used for - the output of :func:`print` and :term:`expression` statements and for the + :term:`File objects <file object>` corresponding to the interpreter's standard + input, output and error streams. ``stdin`` is used for all interpreter input + except for scripts but including calls to :func:`input`. ``stdout`` is used + for the output of :func:`print` and :term:`expression` statements and for the prompts of :func:`input`. The interpreter's own prompts and (almost all of) its error messages go to ``stderr``. ``stdout`` and ``stderr`` needn't be built-in file objects: any object is acceptable as long |