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authorMartin Panter <vadmium>2015-09-12 00:34:28 (GMT)
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Issue #16473: Fix byte transform codec documentation; test quotetabs=True
This changes the equivalent functions listed for the Base-64, hex and Quoted- Printable codecs to reflect the functions actually used. Also mention and test the "quotetabs" setting for Quoted-Printable encoding.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
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+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -1193,21 +1193,22 @@ The following codecs provide str-to-str encoding and decoding
+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+
| Codec | Aliases | Purpose | Encoder/decoder |
+====================+===========================+===========================+==============================+
-| base64_codec | base64, base-64 | Convert operand to MIME | :meth:`base64.b64encode`, |
-| | | base64 (the result always | :meth:`base64.b64decode` |
-| | | includes a trailing | |
-| | | ``'\n'``) | |
+| base64_codec | base64, base-64 | Convert operand to | :meth:`base64.encodestring`, |
+| | | multiline MIME base64 (the| :meth:`base64.decodestring` |
+| | | result always includes a | |
+| | | trailing ``'\n'``) | |
+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+
| bz2_codec | bz2 | Compress the operand | :meth:`bz2.compress`, |
| | | using bz2 | :meth:`bz2.decompress` |
+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+
-| hex_codec | hex | Convert operand to | :meth:`base64.b16encode`, |
-| | | hexadecimal | :meth:`base64.b16decode` |
+| hex_codec | hex | Convert operand to | :meth:`binascii.b2a_hex`, |
+| | | hexadecimal | :meth:`binascii.a2b_hex` |
| | | representation, with two | |
| | | digits per byte | |
+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+
-| quopri_codec | quopri, quoted-printable, | Convert operand to MIME | :meth:`quopri.encodestring`, |
-| | quotedprintable | quoted printable | :meth:`quopri.decodestring` |
+| quopri_codec | quopri, quoted-printable, | Convert operand to MIME | :meth:`quopri.encode` with |
+| | quotedprintable | quoted printable | ``quotetabs=True``, |
+| | | | :meth:`quopri.decode` |
+--------------------+---------------------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+
| string_escape | | Produce a string that is | |
| | | suitable as string | |