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authorWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2002-11-19 21:42:53 (GMT)
committerWalter Dörwald <walter@livinglogic.de>2002-11-19 21:42:53 (GMT)
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Add missing documentation for the PEP 293 functionality to
the codecs docstrings.
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/codecs.py b/Lib/codecs.py
index 0b43a72..e7967d8 100644
--- a/Lib/codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/codecs.py
@@ -67,15 +67,22 @@ class Codec:
""" Defines the interface for stateless encoders/decoders.
- The .encode()/.decode() methods may implement different error
+ The .encode()/.decode() methods may use different error
handling schemes by providing the errors argument. These
- string values are defined:
+ string values are predefined:
'strict' - raise a ValueError error (or a subclass)
'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
'replace' - replace with a suitable replacement character;
Python will use the official U+FFFD REPLACEMENT
- CHARACTER for the builtin Unicode codecs.
+ CHARACTER for the builtin Unicode codecs on
+ decoding and '?' on encoding.
+ 'xmlcharrefreplace' - Replace with the appropriate XML
+ character reference (only for encoding).
+ 'backslashreplace' - Replace with backslashed escape sequences
+ (only for encoding).
+
+ The set of allowed values can be extended via register_error.
"""
def encode(self, input, errors='strict'):
@@ -136,14 +143,20 @@ class StreamWriter(Codec):
stream must be a file-like object open for writing
(binary) data.
- The StreamWriter may implement different error handling
+ The StreamWriter may use different error handling
schemes by providing the errors keyword argument. These
- parameters are defined:
+ parameters are predefined:
'strict' - raise a ValueError (or a subclass)
'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
'replace'- replace with a suitable replacement character
+ 'xmlcharrefreplace' - Replace with the appropriate XML
+ character reference.
+ 'backslashreplace' - Replace with backslashed escape
+ sequences (only for encoding).
+ The set of allowed parameter values can be extended via
+ register_error.
"""
self.stream = stream
self.errors = errors
@@ -192,14 +205,16 @@ class StreamReader(Codec):
stream must be a file-like object open for reading
(binary) data.
- The StreamReader may implement different error handling
+ The StreamReader may use different error handling
schemes by providing the errors keyword argument. These
- parameters are defined:
+ parameters are predefined:
'strict' - raise a ValueError (or a subclass)
'ignore' - ignore the character and continue with the next
'replace'- replace with a suitable replacement character;
+ The set of allowed parameter values can be extended via
+ register_error.
"""
self.stream = stream
self.errors = errors