[issue12160] codecs doc: what is StreamCodec?

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

STINNER Victor wrote:
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> New submission from STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com>:
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> Codec.encode() and Codec.decode() refer to StreamCode, but I cannot find this class in the doc nor in the code.
> 
> I suppose that it should be replaced by IncrementalEncoder and IncrementalDecoder. If I'm correct, see attached patch.

Thanks for spotting this.

It should read StreamReader/StreamWriter, since these were designed
to keep state.

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