interpreted as in slice notation.
-.. method:: str.encode(encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="strict")
+.. method:: str.encode(encoding="utf-8", errors="strict")
- Return an encoded version of the string as a bytes object. Default encoding
- is the current default string encoding. *errors* may be given to set a
- different error handling scheme. The default for *errors* is ``'strict'``,
- meaning that encoding errors raise a :exc:`UnicodeError`. Other possible
+ Return an encoded version of the string as a bytes object. Default encoding
+ is ``'utf-8'``. *errors* may be given to set a different error handling scheme.
+ The default for *errors* is ``'strict'``, meaning that encoding errors raise
+ a :exc:`UnicodeError`. Other possible
values are ``'ignore'``, ``'replace'``, ``'xmlcharrefreplace'``,
``'backslashreplace'`` and any other name registered via
:func:`codecs.register_error`, see section :ref:`codec-base-classes`. For a
b = a.replace(b"a", b"f")
-.. method:: bytes.decode(encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="strict")
- bytearray.decode(encoding=sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="strict")
+.. method:: bytes.decode(encoding="utf-8", errors="strict")
+ bytearray.decode(encoding="utf-8", errors="strict")
- Return a string decoded from the given bytes. Default encoding is the
- current default string encoding. *errors* may be given to set a different
+ Return a string decoded from the given bytes. Default encoding is
+ ``'utf-8'``. *errors* may be given to set a different
error handling scheme. The default for *errors* is ``'strict'``, meaning
that encoding errors raise a :exc:`UnicodeError`. Other possible values are
``'ignore'``, ``'replace'`` and any other name registered via
}
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+"B.decode([encoding='utf-8'[, errors='strict']]) -> str\n\
\n\
-Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
-to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
+Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. Default encoding\n\
+is 'utf-8'. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
as well as any other name registered with codecs.register_error that is\n\
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\n\
-Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
-to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
+Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. Default encoding\n\
+is 'utf-8'. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is\n\
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(encode__doc__,
- "S.encode([encoding[, errors]]) -> bytes\n\
+ "S.encode([encoding='utf-8'[, errors='strict']]) -> bytes\n\
\n\
-Encode S using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
-to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
+Encode S using the codec registered for encoding. Default encoding\n\
+is 'utf-8'. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
a UnicodeEncodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore', 'replace' and\n\
'xmlcharrefreplace' as well as any other name registered with\n\