1 files changed, 38 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/zlib_codec.py b/Lib/encodings/zlib_codec.py
index 95908a4..0c2599d 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/zlib_codec.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/zlib_codec.py
@@ -1,24 +1,50 @@
-"""Python 'zlib_codec' Codec - zlib compression encoding.
+""" Python 'zlib_codec' Codec - zlib compression encoding
 
-This codec de/encodes from bytes to bytes.
+    Unlike most of the other codecs which target Unicode, this codec
+    will return Python string objects for both encode and decode.
 
-Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
-"""
+    Written by Marc-Andre Lemburg (mal@lemburg.com).
 
+"""
 import codecs
 import zlib # this codec needs the optional zlib module !
 
 ### Codec APIs
 
-def zlib_encode(input, errors='strict'):
+def zlib_encode(input,errors='strict'):
+
+    """ Encodes the object input and returns a tuple (output
+        object, length consumed).
+
+        errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
+        'strict' handling which is the only currently supported
+        error handling for this codec.
+
+    """
     assert errors == 'strict'
-    return (zlib.compress(input), len(input))
+    output = zlib.compress(input)
+    return (output, len(input))
 
-def zlib_decode(input, errors='strict'):
+def zlib_decode(input,errors='strict'):
+
+    """ Decodes the object input and returns a tuple (output
+        object, length consumed).
+
+        input must be an object which provides the bf_getreadbuf
+        buffer slot. Python strings, buffer objects and memory
+        mapped files are examples of objects providing this slot.
+
+        errors defines the error handling to apply. It defaults to
+        'strict' handling which is the only currently supported
+        error handling for this codec.
+
+    """
     assert errors == 'strict'
-    return (zlib.decompress(input), len(input))
+    output = zlib.decompress(input)
+    return (output, len(input))
 
 class Codec(codecs.Codec):
+
     def encode(self, input, errors='strict'):
         return zlib_encode(input, errors)
     def decode(self, input, errors='strict'):
@@ -56,11 +82,11 @@ class IncrementalDecoder(codecs.IncrementalDecoder):
     def reset(self):
         self.decompressobj = zlib.decompressobj()
 
-class StreamWriter(Codec, codecs.StreamWriter):
-    charbuffertype = bytes
+class StreamWriter(Codec,codecs.StreamWriter):
+    pass
 
-class StreamReader(Codec, codecs.StreamReader):
-    charbuffertype = bytes
+class StreamReader(Codec,codecs.StreamReader):
+    pass
 
 ### encodings module API