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<span id="fileobjects"></span><h1>File Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#file-objects" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p id="index-0">These APIs are a minimal emulation of the Python 2 C API for built-in file
objects, which used to rely on the buffered I/O (<code class="xref c c-type docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">FILE*</span></code>) support
from the C standard library. In Python 3, files and streams use the new
<a class="reference internal" href="../library/io.html#module-io" title="io: Core tools for working with streams."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">io</span></code></a> module, which defines several layers over the low-level unbuffered
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error reporting in the interpreter; third-party code is advised to access
the <a class="reference internal" href="../library/io.html#module-io" title="io: Core tools for working with streams."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">io</span></code></a> APIs instead.</p>
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<code class="descname">PyFile_FromFd</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span>int<em> fd</em>, const char<em> *name</em>, const char<em> *mode</em>, int<em> buffering</em>, const char<em> *encoding</em>, const char<em> *errors</em>, const char<em> *newline</em>, int<em> closefd</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#c.PyFile_FromFd" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em><p>Create a Python file object from the file descriptor of an already
opened file <em>fd</em>. The arguments <em>name</em>, <em>encoding</em>, <em>errors</em> and <em>newline</em>
can be <em>NULL</em> to use the defaults; <em>buffering</em> can be <em>-1</em> to use the
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please refer to the <a class="reference internal" href="../library/io.html#io.open" title="io.open"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">io.open()</span></code></a> function documentation.</p>
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<dd><p>Return the file descriptor associated with <em>p</em> as an <code class="xref c c-type docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">int</span></code>. If the
object is an integer, its value is returned. If not, the
objects <a class="reference internal" href="../library/io.html#io.IOBase.fileno" title="io.IOBase.fileno"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fileno()</span></code></a> method is called if it exists; the
method must return an integer, which is returned as the file descriptor
value. Sets an exception and returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-1</span></code> on failure.</p>
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<dd><em class="refcount">Return value: New reference.</em><p id="index-1">Equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">p.readline([n])</span></code>, this function reads one line from the
object <em>p</em>. <em>p</em> may be a file object or any object with a
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<dd><p id="index-2">Write object <em>obj</em> to file object <em>p</em>. The only supported flag for <em>flags</em> is
<code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Py_PRINT_RAW</span></code>; if given, the <a class="reference internal" href="../library/stdtypes.html#str" title="str"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str()</span></code></a> of the object is written
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<dd><p>Write string <em>s</em> to file object <em>p</em>. Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> on success or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-1</span></code> on
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