From: Lysandros Nikolaou <lisandrosnik@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 15:08:10 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161)
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bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161)

with the case of an existing file
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index d33e2d0c89..acbd0e48af 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -1119,6 +1119,9 @@ 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