[New-bugs-announce] [issue46143] [docs] IO > Text Encoding info outdated

[David Gilbertson]

New submission from David Gilbertson <gilbertson.david at gmail.com>:

On this page: https://docs.python.org/3/library/io.html#text-encoding it says "there is no concrete plan as of yet, Python may change the default text file encoding to UTF-8 in the future".

On this page https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#utf8-mode is says that from 3.7 onwards UTF-8 will be selected by default.

Does that mean that the text in the first section is now outdated, as it was addressed by PEP 540?

I'm a newbie, so apologies if I'm missing something obvious or filing this in the wrong spot.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 408983
nosy: docs at python, gilbertson.david
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: [docs] IO > Text Encoding info outdated
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.10

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