Index: xml.sax.utils.rst
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--- xml.sax.utils.rst	(revision 74182)
+++ xml.sax.utils.rst	(working copy)
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@
    This class implements the :class:`ContentHandler` interface by writing SAX
    events back into an XML document. In other words, using an :class:`XMLGenerator`
    as the content handler will reproduce the original document being parsed. *out*
-   should be a file-like object which will default to *sys.stdout*. *encoding* is
-   the encoding of the output stream which defaults to ``'iso-8859-1'``.
+   should be a file-like object. *encoding* is the encoding of the output
+   stream which defaults to ``'iso-8859-1'``.  Note that this class writes
+   encoded bytes to the output, not strings.
 
 
 .. class:: XMLFilterBase(base)