pythongh-96810: Clarify for which statements sqlite3 implicitly opens…

… transactions (pythonGH-96832) (cherry picked from commit 16c33a9) Co-authored-by: Erlend E. Aasland <[email protected]>
miss-islington · Sep 15, 2022 · 7e94c6a · 7e94c6a
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@@ -1850,7 +1850,8 @@ 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`_ —