[Python-checkins] bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161) (GH-15977)

[Julien Palard]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/893653357cc83d49049debfeb9074a4ce99cd478
commit: 893653357cc83d49049debfeb9074a4ce99cd478
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Julien Palard <julien at palard.fr>
date: 2019-09-11T17:55:31+02:00
summary:

bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161) (GH-15977)

with the case of an existing file
(cherry picked from commit af636f4f91b8289b6dad95cb84123f6e22fd7f4f)

Co-authored-by: Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik at gmail.com>

files:
M Doc/library/pathlib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index ad8f6011ad02..326bb2e933cd 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -1106,6 +1106,9 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
       >>> p.read_text()
       'Text file contents'
 
+   An existing file of the same name is overwritten. The optional parameters
+   have the same meaning as in :func:`open`.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.5
 
 Correspondence to tools in the :mod:`os` module