Silly question, where is read() documented?

[Chris Green]

Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 8/29/2020 12:18 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > Well it sounds a silly question but 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.
> 
> sys.stdin is of no particular type, but must at least have a .read method.
> 
> > So where is it documented?  :-)
> 
> >>> import sys; sys.stdin
> should give a hint.  In the standard REPL,
> 
> <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdin>' mode='r' encoding='utf-8'>
> 
> As others said, actually look in the io module doc.  You might spend 
> some time reading the doc to get an idea of what is going on.  If you 
> run from IDLE, you currently get
> 
> <idlelib.run.StdInputFile object at 0x00000243F6D6FBB0>
> (I should make that more like the REPL answer.)
> 
Yes, quite! :-)

All I actually wanted to find out was the difference between what is
returned by sys.stdin.read() in Python 2 and Python 3 as that turned
out to be the fundamental cause of the mail handling problem I have
been airing in other threads here.

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Chris Green
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