From c036e594daba74b6a48369d63cad44bf231a13ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Blaise Pabon <blaise@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:32:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gh-106318: Add example for `str.encode()` (GH-134520) (cherry
 picked from commit 273459562e3eaee4dd242fe8ee098cfdb4eebe9b)

Co-authored-by: Blaise Pabon <blaise@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <1324225+hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index a3c54274597984..a32dee4ca5727e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1705,6 +1705,14 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
    unless an encoding error actually occurs,
    :ref:`devmode` is enabled
    or a :ref:`debug build <debug-build>` is used.
+   For example::
+
+      >>> encoded_str_to_bytes = 'Python'.encode()
+      >>> type(encoded_str_to_bytes)
+      <class 'bytes'>
+      >>> encoded_str_to_bytes
+      b'Python'
+
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.1
       Added support for keyword arguments.