bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161)

with the case of an existing file

bpo-36182: Update pathlib.Path.write_text() docs (GH-12161)
with the case of an existing file
af636f4f · Lysandros Nikolaou · Julien Palard · 3ba51d58 · af636f4f
Commit af636f4f authored Sep 11, 2019 by Lysandros Nikolaou Committed by Julien Palard Sep 11, 2019
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@@ -1119,6 +1119,9 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
      >>> p.read_text()
      'Text file contents'

+   An existing file of the same name is overwritten. The optional parameters
+   have the same meaning as in :func:`open`.
+
   .. versionadded:: 3.5

 Correspondence to tools in the :mod:`os` module