From 3d54fe7f2295b40b4d6e6b35f2dcff6bb8bfd523 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Levy-Kramer <josh@starcount.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:49:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated to_hdf doc string

Updated the docstring to make clear that a HDFStore is required for a buffer, if a path is not directly passed
---
 pandas/core/generic.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 3bf998c1fa5a7..aba38ed4f63af 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ def to_hdf(self, path_or_buf, key, **kwargs):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        path_or_buf : the path (string) or buffer to put the store
+        path_or_buf : the path (string) or HDFStore object
         key : string
             indentifier for the group in the store
         mode : optional, {'a', 'w', 'r', 'r+'}, default 'a'