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Expand Up @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.

*buffering* is an optional integer used to set the buffering policy. Pass 0
to switch buffering off (only allowed in binary mode), 1 to select line
buffering (only usable in text mode), and an integer > 1 to indicate the size
buffering (only usable when writing in text mode), and an integer > 1 to indicate the size
in bytes of a fixed-size chunk buffer. 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. To disable buffering in
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