From: Saleh Dehqanpour <salehdeh76@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 19:12:40 +0000 (+0330)
Subject: gh-117026: Remove outdated sentence in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler docs (GH-117027)
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gh-117026: Remove outdated sentence in SimpleHTTPRequestHandler docs (GH-117027)

The code was changed in 0f7cddc308b297e6a1c2dd61503acea38401656f (bpo-839496/gh-39531).
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diff --git a/Doc/library/http.server.rst b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
index 54df4a7e804d..02016c789b24 100644
--- a/Doc/library/http.server.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/http.server.rst
@@ -429,8 +429,7 @@ instantiation, of which this module provides three different variants:
       ``'Last-Modified:'`` header with the file's modification time.
 
       Then follows a blank line signifying the end of the headers, and then the
-      contents of the file are output. If the file's MIME type starts with
-      ``text/`` the file is opened in text mode; otherwise binary mode is used.
+      contents of the file are output.
 
       For example usage, see the implementation of the ``test`` function
       in :source:`Lib/http/server.py`.