[Python-checkins] [3.6] Improve IncrementalEncoder documentation (GH-2746) (GH-3475)

[Mariatta]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/638601ec52858e19a4e3498c1057a62ee1481e65
commit: 638601ec52858e19a4e3498c1057a62ee1481e65
branch: 3.6
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Mariatta <Mariatta at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2017-09-10T06:26:42-07:00
summary:

[3.6] Improve IncrementalEncoder documentation (GH-2746) (GH-3475)

getstate and setstate are instance methods, same as encode and reset.
(cherry picked from commit 30644dee0c14af6c1c61d44166a97cec8245300b)

files:
M Doc/library/codecs.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 0ecd89ba75b..b9c1868d595 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -554,19 +554,19 @@ define in order to be compatible with the Python codec registry.
       if necessary, to reset the encoder and to get the output.
 
 
-.. method:: IncrementalEncoder.getstate()
+   .. method:: getstate()
 
-   Return the current state of the encoder which must be an integer. The
-   implementation should make sure that ``0`` is the most common state. (States
-   that are more complicated than integers can be converted into an integer by
-   marshaling/pickling the state and encoding the bytes of the resulting string
-   into an integer).
+      Return the current state of the encoder which must be an integer. The
+      implementation should make sure that ``0`` is the most common
+      state. (States that are more complicated than integers can be converted
+      into an integer by marshaling/pickling the state and encoding the bytes
+      of the resulting string into an integer).
 
 
-.. method:: IncrementalEncoder.setstate(state)
+   .. method:: setstate(state)
 
-   Set the state of the encoder to *state*. *state* must be an encoder state
-   returned by :meth:`getstate`.
+      Set the state of the encoder to *state*. *state* must be an encoder state
+      returned by :meth:`getstate`.
 
 
 .. _incremental-decoder-objects: