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authorSteve Piercy <web@stevepiercy.com>2017-01-02 17:52:26 -0800
committerSteve Piercy <web@stevepiercy.com>2017-01-02 17:52:26 -0800
commit43fae808c016c35c08ded808829861167f8afa85 (patch)
tree46a7219842eb3cee32690561d381fc57805dc84a
parent268036fec598f9e653b91887200ff8d64d0eeeec (diff)
downloadwaitress-43fae808c016c35c08ded808829861167f8afa85.tar.gz
Proper use of "file-like object" or ``filelike_object``, based on context
-rw-r--r--docs/filewrapper.rst6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/filewrapper.rst b/docs/filewrapper.rst
index 67057b9..a119594 100644
--- a/docs/filewrapper.rst
+++ b/docs/filewrapper.rst
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ in this degenerate case (as per the WSGI pec), and this block size will be
used as the iteration chunk size. The ``block_size`` argument is optional;
if it is not passed, a default value ``32768`` is used.
-Waitress will set a ``Content-Length`` header on the behalf of an application
-when a file wrapper with a sufficient ``filelike_object`` is used if the
+Waitress will set a ``Content-Length`` header on behalf of an application
+when a file wrapper with a sufficiently file-like object is used if the
application hasn't already set one.
The machinery which handles a file wrapper currently doesn't do anything
@@ -51,4 +51,4 @@ particularly special using fancy system calls (it doesn't use ``sendfile``
for example); using it currently just prevents the system from needing to
copy data to a temporary buffer in order to send it to the client. No
copying of data is done when a WSGI app returns a file wrapper that wraps a
-sufficient ``filelike_object``. It may do something fancier in the future.
+sufficiently file-like object. It may do something fancier in the future.