gh-96810: Clarify for which statements sqlite3 implicitly opens transactions (GH...

(cherry picked from commit 16c33a9676e2f3ef330d09f2ab515c56636fa09f)

Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index 28f12040b63e631a1f3f2bce54db4c8a28ddd01d..70cf43c2544e8cc87574ba0ebc2c05e5dcf167bb 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -2236,7 +2236,8 @@ If the connection attribute :attr:`~Connection.isolation_level`
 is not ``None``,
 new transactions are implicitly opened before
 :meth:`~Cursor.execute` and :meth:`~Cursor.executemany` executes
-``INSERT``, ``UPDATE``, ``DELETE``, or ``REPLACE`` statements.
+``INSERT``, ``UPDATE``, ``DELETE``, or ``REPLACE`` statements;
+for other statements, no implicit transaction handling is performed.
 Use the :meth:`~Connection.commit` and :meth:`~Connection.rollback` methods
 to respectively commit and roll back pending transactions.
 You can choose the underlying `SQLite transaction behaviour`_ —