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@@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ Other Language Changes
in this case.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`20443`.)
-* In development mode and in debug build, *encoding* and *errors* arguments are
- now checked on string encoding and decoding operations. Examples:
- :func:`open`, :meth:`str.encode` and :meth:`bytes.decode`.
+* In the :ref:`Python Development Mode <devmode>` and in debug build, the
+ *encoding* and *errors* arguments are now checked for string encoding and
+ decoding operations. Examples: :func:`open`, :meth:`str.encode` and
+ :meth:`bytes.decode`.
By default, for best performance, the *errors* argument is only checked at
the first encoding/decoding error and the *encoding* argument is sometimes