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authorWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2002-11-19 21:51:35 (GMT)
committerWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2002-11-19 21:51:35 (GMT)
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Document additional error handling names available through PEP 293.
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@@ -45,9 +45,13 @@ return a tuple of functions \code{(\var{encoder}, \var{decoder}, \var{stream_rea
Possible values for errors are \code{'strict'} (raise an exception
in case of an encoding error), \code{'replace'} (replace malformed
- data with a suitable replacement marker, such as \character{?}) and
+ data with a suitable replacement marker, such as \character{?}),
\code{'ignore'} (ignore malformed data and continue without further
- notice).
+ notice), \code{'xmlcharrefreplace'} (replace with the appropriate XML
+ character reference (for encoding only)) and \code{'backslashreplace'}
+ (replace with backslashed escape sequences (for encoding only)) as
+ well as any other error handling name defined via
+ \function{register_error()}.
In case a search function cannot find a given encoding, it should
return \code{None}.