From 4254cbd29c77f3d26d701198735957375a995dcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake 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 -- cgit v0.12