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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/using/cmdline.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst index 908a17c..e8a329e 100644 --- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst +++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst @@ -538,13 +538,16 @@ conflict. .. envvar:: PYTHONIOENCODING If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used - for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax ``encodingname:errorhandler``. The - ``:errorhandler`` part is optional and has the same meaning as in - :func:`str.encode`. + for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax ``encodingname:errorhandler``. Both + the ``encodingname`` and the ``:errorhandler`` parts are optional and have + the same meaning as in :func:`str.encode`. For stderr, the ``:errorhandler`` part is ignored; the handler will always be ``'backslashreplace'``. + .. versionchanged:: 3.4 + The ``encodingname`` part is now optional. + .. envvar:: PYTHONNOUSERSITE |