From: Cody Maloney <cmaloney@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:53:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: gh-83926: BlockingIOError characters_written is byte count (#141215)
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gh-83926: BlockingIOError characters_written is byte count (#141215)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index b5e3a84b4556..f3aca1ba4925 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -742,8 +742,8 @@ depending on the system error code.
 
    .. attribute:: characters_written
 
-      An integer containing the number of characters written to the stream
-      before it blocked.  This attribute is available when using the
+      An integer containing the number of **bytes** written to the stream
+      before it blocked. This attribute is available when using the
       buffered I/O classes from the :mod:`io` module.
 
 .. exception:: ChildProcessError