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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-06 14:43:12 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-06 14:43:12 (GMT)
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Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
Documentation for unichr(), unicode(), update for ord().
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
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@@ -466,9 +466,11 @@ one argument, return the smallest of the arguments.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{ord}{c}
- Return the \ASCII{} value of a string of one character. E.g.,
- \code{ord('a')} returns the integer \code{97}. This is the inverse of
- \function{chr()}.
+ Return the \ASCII{} value of a string of one character or a Unicode
+ character. E.g., \code{ord('a')} returns the integer \code{97},
+ \code{ord(u'\\u2020')} returns \code{8224}. This is the inverse of
+ \function{chr()} for strings and of \function{unichr()} for Unicode
+ characters.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{pow}{x, y\optional{, z}}
@@ -660,6 +662,21 @@ For instance:
\end{verbatim}
\end{funcdesc}
+\begin{funcdesc}{unichr}{i}
+Return the Unicode string of one character whose Unicode code is the
+integer \var{i}, e.g., \code{unichr(97)} returns the string
+\code{u'a'}. This is the inverse of \function{ord()} for Unicode
+strings. The argument must be in the range [0..65535], inclusive.
+\exception{ValueError} is raised otherwise.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
+\begin{funcdesc}{unicode}{string\optional{, encoding='utf-8'\optional{, errors='strict'}}}
+Decodes \var{string} using the codec for \var{encoding}. Error
+handling is done according to \var{errors}. The default behavior is
+to decode UTF-8 in strict mode, meaning that encoding errors raise
+\exception{ValueError}.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
\begin{funcdesc}{vars}{\optional{object}}
Without arguments, return a dictionary corresponding to the current
local symbol table. With a module, class or class instance object as