From 2a84a20236b6b6145cbd6e961ed0e1848c360100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ritesh Ghorse <riteshghorse@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 09:27:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [Python] Add doc comment for WriteToText.skip_if_empty
 (#30409)

* enable skip_if_empty

* add doc comment
---
 sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py
index 0e7ea8ff2437..454fe4d69dea 100644
--- a/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py
+++ b/sdks/python/apache_beam/io/textio.py
@@ -871,6 +871,8 @@ def __init__(
         to exceed this value.  This also tracks the uncompressed,
         not compressed, size of the shard.
       skip_if_empty: Don't write any shards if the PCollection is empty.
+        In case of an empty PCollection, this will still delete existing
+        files having same file path and not create new ones.
     """
 
     self._sink = _TextSink(