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diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 382e911008..b8fa8ee255 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -2289,10 +2289,10 @@ bytes_endswith(PyBytesObject *self, PyObject *args)
PyDoc_STRVAR(decode__doc__,
-"B.decode([encoding[, errors]]) -> str\n\
+"B.decode([encoding='utf-8'[, errors='strict']]) -> str\n\
\n\
-Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
-to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
+Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. Default encoding\n\
+is 'utf-8'. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
handling scheme. Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
a UnicodeDecodeError. Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is\n\