gh-96810: Clarify for which statements sqlite3 implicitly opens transactions (GH-96832)

miss-islington · erlend-aasland · pablogsal · commit 746dad4eaba4 · 2022-10-22T20:06:12.000+01:00
(cherry picked from commit 16c33a9) Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -2239,7 +2239,8 @@ 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`_ —
