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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index d1e3407..8a0c336 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -940,15 +940,17 @@ 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 - encoding supported by Python can be used. See the :mod:`codecs` module for + :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. - A variety of standard error handlers are available, though any + A variety of standard error handlers are available + (listed under :ref:`error-handlers`), though any error handling name that has been registered with :func:`codecs.register_error` is also valid. The standard names - are: + include: * ``'strict'`` to raise a :exc:`ValueError` exception if there is an encoding error. The default value of ``None`` has the same |