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diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst index 86511602fa5..b231fa568cf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst +++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst @@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ any codec: :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError`). Refer to :ref:`codec-base-classes` for more information on codec error handling. +.. function:: charmap_build(string) + + Return a mapping suitable for encoding with a custom single-byte encoding. + Given a :class:`str` *string* of up to 256 characters representing a + decoding table, returns either a compact internal mapping object + ``EncodingMap`` or a :class:`dictionary <dict>` mapping character ordinals + to byte values. Raises a :exc:`TypeError` on invalid input. + The full details for each codec can also be looked up directly: .. function:: lookup(encoding, /) |