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authorLysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik@gmail.com>2019-09-11 15:08:10 (GMT)
committerJulien Palard <julien@palard.fr>2019-09-11 15:08:10 (GMT)
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bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161)
with the case of an existing file
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@@ -1119,6 +1119,9 @@ 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