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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-03-14 00:56:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-03-14 00:56:27 (GMT) |
| commit | 44b03c5bf07443d7b04053888ffecb0c10b8411b (patch) | |
| tree | 854d2db893cce35d1b362050fc8e7036dfb59cfb /Doc | |
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whatsnew: small tweaks to codecs entry.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 7c4c43a..dae0c54 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ module (and have been covered by the regression test suite) since Python 2.4, but were previously only discoverable through runtime introspection. Unlike the convenience methods on :class:`str`, :class:`bytes` and -:class:`bytearray`, these convenience functions support arbitrary codecs -in both Python 2 and Python 3, rather than being limited to Unicode text -encodings (in Python 3) or ``basestring`` <-> ``basestring`` conversions -(in Python 2). +:class:`bytearray`, the :mod:`codecs` convenience functions support arbitrary +codecs in both Python 2 and Python 3, rather than being limited to Unicode text +encodings (in Python 3) or ``basestring`` <-> ``basestring`` conversions (in +Python 2). In Python 3.4, the interpreter is able to identify the known non-text encodings provided in the standard library and direct users towards these @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ general purpose convenience functions when appropriate:: In a related change, whenever it is feasible without breaking backwards compatibility, exceptions raised during encoding and decoding operations -will be wrapped in a chained exception of the same type that mentions the +are wrapped in a chained exception of the same type that mentions the name of the codec responsible for producing the error:: >>> import codecs @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ as:: The binary and text transforms provided in the standard library are detailed in :ref:`binary-transforms` and :ref:`text-transforms`. -(Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`7475`, , :issue:`17827`, +(Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`7475`, :issue:`17827`, :issue:`17828` and :issue:`19619`) |