From 4254cbd29c77f3d26d701198735957375a995dcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:25:46 +0000
Subject: Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs. Closes
 SF bug #513666.

---
 Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index f695c3d..5526dc5 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -859,7 +859,8 @@ def my_import(name):
   If \var{encoding} and/or \var{errors} are given, \code{unicode()}
   will decode the object which can either be an 8-bit string or a
   character buffer using the codec for \var{encoding}. The
-  \var{encoding} parameter is a string giving the name of an encoding.
+  \var{encoding} parameter is a string giving the name of an encoding;
+  if the encoding is not known, \exception{LookupError} is raised.
   Error handling is done according to \var{errors}; this specifies the
   treatment of characters which are invalid in the input encoding.  If
   \var{errors} is \code{'strict'} (the default), a
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