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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 9635d8a..9680d7a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -67,23 +67,22 @@ Notes on the availability of these functions: File Names, Command Line Arguments, and Environment Variables ------------------------------------------------------------- -In Python, file names, command line arguments, and environment -variables are represented using the string type. On some systems, -decoding these strings to and from bytes is necessary before passing -them to the operating system. Python uses the file system encoding to -perform this conversion (see :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding`). +In Python, file names, command line arguments, and environment variables are +represented using the string type. On some systems, decoding these strings to +and from bytes is necessary before passing them to the operating system. Python +uses the file system encoding to perform this conversion (see +:func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding`). .. versionchanged:: 3.1 - On some systems, conversion using the file system encoding may - fail. In this case, Python uses the ``surrogateescape`` encoding - error handler, which means that undecodable bytes are replaced by a - Unicode character U+DCxx on decoding, and these are again - translated to the original byte on encoding. + On some systems, conversion using the file system encoding may fail. In this + case, Python uses the ``surrogateescape`` encoding error handler, which means + that undecodable bytes are replaced by a Unicode character U+DCxx on + decoding, and these are again translated to the original byte on encoding. -The file system encoding must guarantee to successfully decode all -bytes below 128. If the file system encoding fails to provide this -guarantee, API functions may raise UnicodeErrors. +The file system encoding must guarantee to successfully decode all bytes +below 128. If the file system encoding fails to provide this guarantee, API +functions may raise UnicodeErrors. .. _os-procinfo: |