file.read Method Documentation (Python 2.7.10)

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 21:25, Stephen Tucker <stephen_tucker at sil.org> wrote:
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> Chris,
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> Thanks for this clarification.
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> I have not found documentation that disagrees with you. I simply observe that the documentation that I have alluded to earlier in this chain (section 5.9 File Objects)

That's specifically the plain file objects. Other types of objects
behave differently.

> could have been made clearer by the addition of a note along the lines that the behaviour of a file's read method (in particular, what the unit of information is that it reads (that is, "byte", "UTF-8 encoded character", or whatever)) depends on the way in which the file has been opened.
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> Thank you, Chris (and others) for your attention to my request. I consider this enquiry closed.
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Cool cool!

ChrisA