diff --git a/Objects/bytesobject.c b/Objects/bytesobject.c
index 382e911..b8fa8ee 100644
--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c
@@ -2289,10 +2289,10 @@
 
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(decode__doc__,
-"B.decode([encoding[, errors]]) -> str\n\
+"B.decode([encoding='utf-8'[, errors='strict']]) -> str\n\
 \n\
-Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
-to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
+Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. Default encoding\n\
+is 'utf-8'. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
 handling scheme.  Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
 a UnicodeDecodeError.  Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
 as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is\n\