[Python-checkins] r72311 - in python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library: codecs.rst os.rst

[martin.v.loewis]

Author: martin.v.loewis
Date: Tue May  5 06:05:28 2009
New Revision: 72311

Log:
Documentation patch from Georg.


Modified:
   python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/codecs.rst
   python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/os.rst

Modified: python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/codecs.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/codecs.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/codecs.rst	Tue May  5 06:05:28 2009
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
 +------------------+---------+--------------------------------------------+
 
 .. versionadded:: 3.1
-   The ``'surrogates'`` error handler.
+   The ``'utf8b'`` and ``'surrogates'`` error handlers.
 
 The set of allowed values can be extended via :meth:`register_error`.
 

Modified: python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/os.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/os.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/pep-0383/Doc/library/os.rst	Tue May  5 06:05:28 2009
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
    have currently been registered: ``'posix'``, ``'nt'``, ``'mac'``, ``'os2'``,
    ``'ce'``, ``'java'``.
 
+
 .. _os-filenames:
 
 File Names, Command Line Arguments, and Environment Variables
@@ -64,13 +65,16 @@
 .. versionchanged:: 3.1
    On some systems, conversion using the file system encoding may
    fail. In this case, Python uses the ``utf8b`` encoding error
-   handler.
+   handler, which means that undecodable bytes are replaced by a
+   Unicode character U+DCxx on decoding, and these are again
+   translated to the original byte on encoding.
 
 
 The file system encoding must guarantee to successfully decode all
 bytes below 128. If the file system encoding fails to provide this
 guarantee, API functions may raise UnicodeErrors.
 
+
 .. _os-procinfo:
 
 Process Parameters
@@ -709,6 +713,7 @@
 .. function:: getcwd()
 
    Return a string representing the current working directory.
+   Availability: Unix, Windows.
 
 .. function:: getcwdb()
 
@@ -815,7 +820,7 @@
    entries ``'.'`` and ``'..'`` even if they are present in the directory.
    Availability: Unix, Windows.
 
-   This function can be called with a bytes or string argument, and return
+   This function can be called with a bytes or string argument, and returns
    filenames of the same datatype.