Issue 7035: codecs error handlers lack documentation (original) (raw)

import codecs help(codecs.replace_errors)

results in

replace_errors(...) (END)

in Python 2.6. Interestingly, http://docs.python.org/library/codecs actually says "Implements the replace error handling." Which is pretty useless, though. :) Suggest at least copying the parenthesized notes in the next-to-last paragraph under codecs.register to the docstrings.

I was looking for docs in the hope of finding something fancy ala converting æ to ae, alas no cigar.