checking in; sorry!
"the the" --> "the" (in docstring); noted by Detlef Lannert
<lannert@lannert.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>.
conversion: encode and decode work on the frontend (the
input to .read() and output of .write()) while
Reader and Writer work on the backend (reading and
- writing to the the stream).
+ writing to the stream).
You can use these objects to do transparent direct
recodings from e.g. latin-1 to utf-8 and back.