From fafae08cc7caa25f2bd6b29106b50ef76c3e296f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:59:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gh-59254: mention in open() doc that line buffering is for
 writing (#112318)

---
 Doc/library/functions.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index a72f779f697..b2dd32f925e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -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