[docs] I suspect a reversal

Georg Brandl georg at python.org
Sun Oct 6 13:17:41 CEST 2013


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Am 09.05.2013 21:53, schrieb Edward Welbourne:
> Hi doc-team,
> 
> On http://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html under codecs.register, I
> see the description: <quote>
> 
> streamreader and streamwriter: These have to be factory functions providing
> the following interface:
> 
> factory(stream, errors='strict')
> 
> The factory functions must return objects providing the interfaces defined
> by the base classes StreamWriter and StreamReader, respectively.
> 
> </quote> and am instantly suspicious: apparently, streamreader should have
> the interface of StreamWriter and streamwrite that of StreamReader. This is
> either a doc bug or a horribly bad choice of names for the .register()
> function's parameters !

Hi Edward,

thanks for the report; this was indeed a bug in the docs, is now fixed and
should appear online soon.

cheers,
Georg
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