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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst index 3fce3b21b4..0094af3692 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ in various ways. There is a separate error indicator for each thread. This is the most common way to set the error indicator. The first argument specifies the exception type; it is normally one of the standard exceptions, e.g. :c:data:`PyExc_RuntimeError`. You need not increment its reference count. - The second argument is an error message; it is converted to a string object. + The second argument is an error message; it is decoded from ``'utf-8``'. .. c:function:: void PyErr_SetObject(PyObject *type, PyObject *value) @@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ in various ways. There is a separate error indicator for each thread. *filename* is not *NULL*, it is passed to the constructor of *type* as a third parameter. In the case of exceptions such as :exc:`IOError` and :exc:`OSError`, this is used to define the :attr:`filename` attribute of the exception instance. + *filename* is decoded from the filesystem encoding + (:func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding`). .. c:function:: PyObject* PyErr_SetFromWindowsErr(int ierr) |