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@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(open_doc,
"'a' for appending (which on some Unix systems, means that all writes\n"
"append to the end of the file regardless of the current seek position).\n"
"In text mode, if encoding is not specified the encoding used is platform\n"
-"dependent. (For reading and writing raw bytes use binary mode and leave\n"
-"encoding unspecified.) The available modes are:\n"
+"dependent: locale.getpreferredencoding(False) is called to get the\n"
+"current locale encoding. (For reading and writing raw bytes use binary\n"
+"mode and leave encoding unspecified.) The available modes are:\n"
"\n"
"========= ===============================================================\n"
"Character Meaning\n"