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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/urllib.parse.rst
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Expand Up @@ -638,8 +638,9 @@ task isn't already covered by the URL parsing functions above.

The optional *encoding* and *errors* parameters specify how to deal with
non-ASCII characters, as accepted by the :meth:`str.encode` method.
*encoding* defaults to ``'utf-8'``.
*errors* defaults to ``'strict'``, meaning unsupported characters raise a
Although these parameters default to ``None`` in the function signature,
when processing :class:`str` inputs, *encoding* effectively defaults to ``'utf-8'``
and *errors* to ``'strict'``, meaning unsupported characters raise a
:class:`UnicodeEncodeError`.
*encoding* and *errors* must not be supplied if *string* is a
:class:`bytes`, or a :class:`TypeError` is raised.
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