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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/linecache.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/linecache.rst b/Doc/library/linecache.rst index e9ec801763..f18b1cdac0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/linecache.rst +++ b/Doc/library/linecache.rst @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ attempting to optimize internally, using a cache, the common case where many lines are read from a single file. This is used by the :mod:`traceback` module to retrieve source lines for inclusion in the formatted traceback. -The :func:`tokenize.open` function is used to open Python source files. This +The :func:`tokenize.open` function is used to open files. This function uses :func:`tokenize.detect_encoding` to get the encoding of the -Python source file. +file; in the absence of an encoding token, the file encoding defaults to UTF-8. The :mod:`linecache` module defines the following functions: |