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authorNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2015-01-06 14:22:00 (GMT)
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2015-01-06 14:22:00 (GMT)
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Issue 19548: update codecs module documentation
- clarified the distinction between text encodings and other codecs - clarified relationship with builtin open and the io module - consolidated documentation of error handlers into one section - clarified type constraints of some behaviours - added tests for some of the new statements in the docs
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Tests
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+- Issue #19548: Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that
+ statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin
+ Panter.
+
- Issue #22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery.
- Issue #22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.
@@ -297,6 +301,10 @@ Build
Documentation
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+- Issue #19548: Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the
+ distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together with other
+ clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter.
+
- Issue #22914: Update the Python 2/3 porting HOWTO to describe a more automated
approach.