From 118ee9680e7f6e1ed671422636c03d1066e20f55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew M. Kuchling" Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:01:18 +0000 Subject: Fixed error in explanation of codec decode_func pointed out by Gregg Hauser, and rewrote paragraph a bit. --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Doc/whatsnew') diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex index fe41ea95f4..bc827d8be0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex @@ -137,10 +137,11 @@ is an 8-bit string containing a portion (perhaps all) of the Unicode string converted into the given encoding, and \var{length} tells you how much of the Unicode string was converted. -\item \var{decode_func} is the mirror of \var{encode_func}, -taking a Unicode string and -returns a 2-tuple \code{(\var{ustring}, \var{length})} containing a Unicode string -and \var{length} telling you how much of the string was consumed. +\item \var{decode_func} is the opposite of \var{encode_func}, taking +an 8-bit string and returning a 2-tuple \code{(\var{ustring}, +\var{length})}, consisting of the resulting Unicode string +\var{ustring} and the integer \var{length} telling how much of the +string was consumed. \item \var{stream_reader} is a class that supports decoding input from a stream. \var{stream_reader(\var{file_obj})} returns an object that @@ -1042,8 +1043,8 @@ these modules. \section{Acknowledgements} The authors would like to thank the following people for offering -suggestions on drafts of this article: Mark Hammond, Fredrik Lundh, -Detlef Lannert, Skip Montanaro, Vladimir Marangozov, Guido van Rossum, -and Neil Schemenauer. +suggestions on drafts of this article: Mark Hammond, Gregg Hauser, +Fredrik Lundh, Detlef Lannert, Skip Montanaro, Vladimir Marangozov, +Guido van Rossum, and Neil Schemenauer. \end{document} -- cgit v1.2.1