[Python-checkins] bpo-34613: document the correct value of limit argument of asyncio.StreamReader (GH-9121)

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Tue Sep 11 14:45:31 EDT 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b4ec36200a959da70eba94c19826446a8efdffdd
commit: b4ec36200a959da70eba94c19826446a8efdffdd
branch: master
author: Bram <cortex at worlddomination.be>
committer: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-09-11T11:45:26-07:00
summary:

bpo-34613: document the correct value of limit argument of asyncio.StreamReader (GH-9121)

The default value of asyncio.StreamReader *limit* is `_DEFAULT_LIMIT` instead of `None`.

<!-- issue-number: [bpo-34613](https://www.bugs.python.org/issue34613) -->
https://bugs.python.org/issue34613
<!-- /issue-number -->

files:
M Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
index 3fe7ac7b4abc..27b5205f1c5b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
@@ -146,10 +146,12 @@ and work with streams:
 StreamReader
 ============
 
-.. class:: StreamReader(limit=None, loop=None)
+.. class:: StreamReader(limit=_DEFAULT_LIMIT, loop=None)
 
    This class is :ref:`not thread safe <asyncio-multithreading>`.
 
+   The *limit* argument's default value is set to _DEFAULT_LIMIT which is 2**16 (64 KiB)
+
    .. method:: exception()
 
       Get the exception.



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