Martin Panter added the comment:
Slightly easier to read version:
>>> pprint(str.__doc__)
("str(object='') -> str\n"
'str(bytes_or_buffer[, encoding[, errors]]) -> str\n'
'\n'
'Create a new string object from the given object. If encoding or\n'
'errors is specified, then the object must expose a data buffer\n'
'that will be decoded using the given encoding and error handler.\n'
'Otherwise, returns the result of object.__str__() (if defined)\n'
'or repr(object).\n'
'encoding defaults to sys.getdefaultencoding().\n'
"errors defaults to 'strict'.")
I don’t exactly understand your complaint.
Do you want to say encoding directly defaults to UTF-8, bypassing the
getdefaultencoding() reference?
Do you want to explicitly point out that bytes() and bytearray() expose a data
buffer and can therefore be decoded? This is already hinted in the name
bytes_or_buffer.
Do you want to clarify that the Otherwise sentence applies when encoding and
errors are not specified, rather than when the object does not expose a buffer?
Maybe another thing to change could be fixing the second signature, to show
that an explicit encoding can be omitted, and bytes_or_buffer is not a valid
keyword name:
str(object, encoding="utf-8", errors="strict")
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