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@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ Other Language Changes
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`.
+
+ By default, for best performances, the *errors* argument is only checked at
+ the first encoding/decoding error, and the *encoding* argument is sometimes
+ ignored for empty strings.
+ (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`37388`.)
+
New Modules
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