gh-64921: Clarify wording for open()'s newline arg (GH-96171)

miss-islington · slateny · web-flow · commit 5054ae23ce9e · 2022-10-07T11:21:44.000-07:00
(cherry picked from commit 4a74e6a) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1244,8 +1244,8 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
    .. _open-newline-parameter:
 
-   *newline* controls how :term:`universal newlines` mode works (it only
-   applies to text mode).  It can be ``None``, ``''``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r'``, and
+   *newline* determines how to parse newline characters from the stream.
+   It can be ``None``, ``''``, ``'\n'``, ``'\r'``, and
    ``'\r\n'``.  It works as follows:
 
    * When reading input from the stream, if *newline* is ``None``, universal
