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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index e6fd0bb5ee..f3b8e40bab 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1123,8 +1123,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. (which on *some* Unix systems, means that *all* writes append to the end of the file regardless of the current seek position). In text mode, if *encoding* is not specified the encoding used is platform-dependent: - ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` is called to get the current locale - encoding. (For reading and writing raw bytes use binary mode and leave + :func:`locale.getencoding()` is called to get the current locale encoding. + (For reading and writing raw bytes use binary mode and leave *encoding* unspecified.) The available modes are: .. _filemodes: @@ -1183,10 +1183,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. *encoding* is the name of the encoding used to decode or encode the file. This should only be used in text mode. The default encoding is platform - dependent (whatever :func:`locale.getpreferredencoding` returns), but any - :term:`text encoding` supported by Python - can be used. See the :mod:`codecs` module for - the list of supported encodings. + dependent (whatever :func:`locale.getencoding` returns), but any + :term:`text encoding` supported by Python can be used. + See the :mod:`codecs` module for the list of supported encodings. *errors* is an optional string that specifies how encoding and decoding errors are to be handled—this cannot be used in binary mode. |