From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:55:31 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161) (GH-15977) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0rc1~171 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=893653357cc83d49049debfeb9074a4ce99cd478;p=python bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161) (GH-15977) with the case of an existing file (cherry picked from commit af636f4f91b8289b6dad95cb84123f6e22fd7f4f) Co-authored-by: Lysandros Nikolaou --- diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst index ad8f6011ad..326bb2e933 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst @@ -1106,6 +1106,9 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist). >>> p.read_text() 'Text file contents' + An existing file of the same name is overwritten. The optional parameters + have the same meaning as in :func:`open`. + .. versionadded:: 3.5 Correspondence to tools in the :mod:`os` module