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.. envvar:: PYTHONIOENCODING
Overrides the encoding used for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax
- encodingname:errorhandler, with the :errors part being optional.
+ ``encodingname:errorhandler``. The ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and
+ has the same meaning as in :func:`str.encode`.
.. versionadded:: 2.6