[issue17827] Document codecs.encode and codecs.decode

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

Still need to backport this to 2.7

(Thanks for the preliminary patch Grant, but I'm afraid it didn't make it into what I ended up committing)

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versions:  -Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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