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whatsnew: small tweaks to codecs entry.

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R David Murray 2014-03-13 20:56:27 -04:00
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@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ module (and have been covered by the regression test suite) since Python 2.4,
but were previously only discoverable through runtime introspection.
Unlike the convenience methods on :class:`str`, :class:`bytes` and
:class:`bytearray`, these convenience functions support arbitrary codecs
in both Python 2 and Python 3, rather than being limited to Unicode text
encodings (in Python 3) or ``basestring`` <-> ``basestring`` conversions
(in Python 2).
:class:`bytearray`, the :mod:`codecs` convenience functions support arbitrary
codecs in both Python 2 and Python 3, rather than being limited to Unicode text
encodings (in Python 3) or ``basestring`` <-> ``basestring`` conversions (in
Python 2).
In Python 3.4, the interpreter is able to identify the known non-text
encodings provided in the standard library and direct users towards these
@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ general purpose convenience functions when appropriate::
In a related change, whenever it is feasible without breaking backwards
compatibility, exceptions raised during encoding and decoding operations
will be wrapped in a chained exception of the same type that mentions the
are wrapped in a chained exception of the same type that mentions the
name of the codec responsible for producing the error::
>>> import codecs
@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ as::
The binary and text transforms provided in the standard library are detailed
in :ref:`binary-transforms` and :ref:`text-transforms`.
(Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`7475`, , :issue:`17827`,
(Contributed by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`7475`, :issue:`17827`,
:issue:`17828` and :issue:`19619`)