https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/245cd6c53278006fa34fd7799d32f0884eb7e75d
commit: 245cd6c53278006fa34fd7799d32f0884eb7e75d
branch: main
author: Malcolm Smith <[email protected]>
committer: methane <[email protected]>
date: 2025-05-03T10:20:10+09:00
summary:
gh-91156: Document how TextIOWrapper interacts with UTF-8 mode (GH-132885)
Document how TextIOWrapper interacts with UTF-8 mode
files:
M Doc/library/io.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/io.rst b/Doc/library/io.rst
index fcd7afea3544dd..3aa2f35f05eba0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/io.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/io.rst
@@ -965,7 +965,8 @@ Text I/O
:class:`TextIOBase`.
*encoding* gives the name of the encoding that the stream will be decoded or
- encoded with. It defaults to :func:`locale.getencoding`.
+ encoded with. In :ref:`UTF-8 Mode <utf8-mode>`, this defaults to UTF-8.
+ Otherwise, it defaults to :func:`locale.getencoding`.
``encoding="locale"`` can be used to specify the current locale's encoding
explicitly. See :ref:`io-text-encoding` for more information.
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