https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3cd5e8e83c9785d9f505138903c7a50dc96... commit: 3cd5e8e83c9785d9f505138903c7a50dc964101e branch: 3.6 author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> committer: Brian Curtin <brian@python.org> date: 2018-09-29T10:39:39-06:00 summary: bpo-27351: Fix ConfigParser.read() documentation and docstring (GH-8123) Switch "list" with "iterable" to match with the implementation. (cherry picked from commit e45473e3ca31e5b78dc85cab575f5bb60d5b7f8f) Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com> files: M Doc/library/configparser.rst M Lib/configparser.py diff --git a/Doc/library/configparser.rst b/Doc/library/configparser.rst index ba107274f7be..4abc6aa75606 100644 --- a/Doc/library/configparser.rst +++ b/Doc/library/configparser.rst @@ -982,15 +982,16 @@ ConfigParser Objects .. method:: read(filenames, encoding=None) - Attempt to read and parse a list of filenames, returning a list of + Attempt to read and parse an iterable of filenames, returning a list of filenames which were successfully parsed. If *filenames* is a string or :term:`path-like object`, it is treated as a single filename. If a file named in *filenames* cannot be opened, that - file will be ignored. This is designed so that you can specify a list of - potential configuration file locations (for example, the current - directory, the user's home directory, and some system-wide directory), - and all existing configuration files in the list will be read. + file will be ignored. This is designed so that you can specify an + iterable of potential configuration file locations (for example, the + current directory, the user's home directory, and some system-wide + directory), and all existing configuration files in the iterable will be + read. If none of the named files exist, the :class:`ConfigParser` instance will contain an empty dataset. An application which requires diff --git a/Lib/configparser.py b/Lib/configparser.py index 230ab2b017ea..0e529e9693ab 100644 --- a/Lib/configparser.py +++ b/Lib/configparser.py @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Return list of configuration options for the named section. read(filenames, encoding=None) - Read and parse the list of named configuration files, given by + Read and parse the iterable of named configuration files, given by name. A single filename is also allowed. Non-existing files are ignored. Return list of successfully read files. @@ -677,13 +677,13 @@ def options(self, section): return list(opts.keys()) def read(self, filenames, encoding=None): - """Read and parse a filename or a list of filenames. + """Read and parse a filename or an iterable of filenames. Files that cannot be opened are silently ignored; this is - designed so that you can specify a list of potential + designed so that you can specify an iterable of potential configuration file locations (e.g. current directory, user's home directory, systemwide directory), and all existing - configuration files in the list will be read. A single + configuration files in the iterable will be read. A single filename may also be given. Return list of successfully read files.