I'm confused by the documentation regarding the buffering when reading a file opened with the open function. Does the buffering parameter do anything when mode is r so that the file is opened in text I/O mode? The docs state: Note that specifying a buffer size this way applies for binary buffered I/O, but TextIOWrapper (i.e., files opened with mode='r+') would have another buffering. What does another mean? An additional buffering or a different buffering? I'd assume it's the latter, which means that the buffering parameter does not specify the size in bytes of a fixed-size chunk buffer. Why would they state that the parameter has a different meaning but not explain it? What's the conclusion to this? open('myfile.txt', 'r', 1024) Does this use a buffer of 1024 bytes? Does the parameter change anything in this mode? Continue reading...
