From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:27:12 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~277
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=68510797cde18d4387beee63878a704c19ff430c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Note that unicode() can raise LookupError for unknown codecs.
Closes SF bug #513666.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index e7df5eab91b6..7c542077d565 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -819,7 +819,8 @@ 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