diff --git a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
index ad8f6011ad0..326bb2e933c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/pathlib.rst
@@ -1106,6 +1106,9 @@ call fails (for example because the path doesn't exist).
       >>> p.read_text()
       'Text file contents'
 
+   An existing file of the same name is overwritten. The optional parameters
+   have the same meaning as in :func:`open`.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.5
 
 Correspondence to tools in the :mod:`os` module