diff Objects/bytesobject.c @ 66069:8154db8a1593

Fix encode/decode method doc of str, bytes, bytearray types * Specify the default encoding: write 'utf-8' instead of sys.getdefaultencoding(), because the default encoding is now constant * Specify the default errors value
author Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com>
date Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:41:46 +0000
parents d31eaec883eb
children f8208c33978f
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--- a/Objects/bytesobject.c	Sun Nov 07 15:47:36 2010 +0000
+++ b/Objects/bytesobject.c	Sun Nov 07 18:41:46 2010 +0000
@@ -2289,10 +2289,10 @@
 
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(decode__doc__,
-"B.decode([encoding[, errors]]) -> str\n\
+"B.decode([encoding='utf-8'[, errors='strict']]) -> str\n\
 \n\
-Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. encoding defaults\n\
-to the default encoding. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
+Decode B using the codec registered for encoding. Default encoding\n\
+is 'utf-8'. errors may be given to set a different error\n\
 handling scheme.  Default is 'strict' meaning that encoding errors raise\n\
 a UnicodeDecodeError.  Other possible values are 'ignore' and 'replace'\n\
 as well as any other name registerd with codecs.register_error that is\n\