[New-bugs-announce] [issue20806] os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual

[Geoffrey Spear]

New submission from Geoffrey Spear:

The documentation for os.times directs the reader: "See the Unix manual page times(2) or the corresponding Windows Platform API documentation."

However, the POSIX manual page in question is times(3P), and on OS X and BSD systems it's times(3). Falling back to "man times" without specifying a manual section also doesn't work, since this finds the bash builtin rather than the library function.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 212424
nosy: docs at python, geoffreyspear
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: os.times document points to wrong section of non-Linux manual
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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