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diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst index 8be2e62..f4bee4e 100644 --- a/Doc/glossary.rst +++ b/Doc/glossary.rst @@ -820,10 +820,13 @@ Glossary :meth:`~collections.somenamedtuple._asdict`. Examples of struct sequences include :data:`sys.float_info` and the return value of :func:`os.stat`. + text encoding + A codec which encodes Unicode strings to bytes. + text file A :term:`file object` able to read and write :class:`str` objects. Often, a text file actually accesses a byte-oriented datastream - and handles the text encoding automatically. + and handles the :term:`text encoding` automatically. .. seealso:: A :term:`binary file` reads and write :class:`bytes` objects. |