From 478b4a12dee1b4ebdde309bbb4f729d6a6d5b6a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stijn de Gooijer <stijndegooijer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 11:50:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add doc entry

---
 py-polars/docs/source/reference/datatypes.rst | 1 +
 py-polars/polars/datatypes/classes.py         | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/py-polars/docs/source/reference/datatypes.rst b/py-polars/docs/source/reference/datatypes.rst
index 196bcc41a1f2..3e538998b002 100644
--- a/py-polars/docs/source/reference/datatypes.rst
+++ b/py-polars/docs/source/reference/datatypes.rst
@@ -59,5 +59,6 @@ Other
     Enum
     Null
     Object
+    String
     Utf8
     Unknown
diff --git a/py-polars/polars/datatypes/classes.py b/py-polars/polars/datatypes/classes.py
index 45906e8e0964..39647be83202 100644
--- a/py-polars/polars/datatypes/classes.py
+++ b/py-polars/polars/datatypes/classes.py
@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ class String(DataType):
     """UTF-8 encoded string type."""
 
 
+# Allow Utf8 as an alias for String
 Utf8 = String