Commit 4254cbd2 authored by Fred Drake's avatar Fred Drake

Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.

Closes SF bug #513666.
parent eab5f8a4
......@@ -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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