Where read() is documented

[Chris Green]

Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> writes:    I can't find the documentation for
> >read().  It's not a built-in function and it's not documented with
> >(for example) the file type object sys.stdin.
> 
> |read() (asyncio.StreamReader method), 894
> |read() (chunk.Chunk method), 1385
> |read() (codecs.StreamReader method), 164
> |read() (configparser.ConfigParser method), 537
> |read() (http.client.HTTPResponse method), 1276
> |read() (imaplib.IMAP4 method), 1291
> |read() (in module os), 578
> |read() (io.BufferedIOBase method), 622
> |read() (io.BufferedReader method), 625
> |read() (io.RawIOBase method), 621
> |read() (io.TextIOBase method), 626
> |read() (mimetypes.MimeTypes method), 1146
> |read() (mmap.mmap method), 1053
> |read() (ossaudiodev.oss_audio_device method), 1388
> |read() (ssl.MemoryBIO method), 1024
> |read() (ssl.SSLSocket method), 1005
> |read() (urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser method), 1268
> |read() (zipfile.ZipFile method), 499
> Index of "The Python Library Reference, Release 3.9.0a3"
> 
> 
But none of those is the documentation for read(), they're just places
that refer to read().

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Chris Green
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