Merged revisions 56443-56466 via svnmerge from
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  r56454 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-18 22:26:14 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Make relative imports explicit for py3k
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  r56455 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-18 23:12:15 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Was modifying dict during iteration.
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  r56457 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-07-19 07:33:19 -0700 (Thu, 19 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

  Fix failing test.
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  r56466 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-07-19 20:58:16 -0700 (Thu, 19 Jul 2007) | 35 lines

  Merged revisions 56413-56465 via svnmerge from
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    r56439 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-17 23:37:55 -0700 (Tue, 17 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Use "Unix" as platform name, not "UNIX".
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    r56441 | guido.van.rossum | 2007-07-18 10:19:14 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

    SF patch# 1755885 by Kurt Kaiser: show location of Unicode escape errors.
    (Slightly tweaked for style and refcounts.)
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    r56444 | kurt.kaiser | 2007-07-18 12:58:42 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Fix failing unicode test caused by change to ast.c at r56441
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    r56451 | georg.brandl | 2007-07-18 15:36:53 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jul 2007) | 2 lines

    Add description for wave.setcomptype() values
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    r56456 | walter.doerwald | 2007-07-19 06:04:38 -0700 (Thu, 19 Jul 2007) | 3 lines

    Document that codecs.lookup() returns a CodecInfo object.
    (fixes SF bug #1754453).
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    r56463 | facundo.batista | 2007-07-19 16:57:38 -0700 (Thu, 19 Jul 2007) | 6 lines


    Added a select.select call in the test server loop to make sure the
    socket is ready to be read from before attempting a read (this
    prevents an error 10035 on some Windows platforms). [GSoC - Alan
    McIntyre]
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diff --git a/Modules/_codecsmodule.c b/Modules/_codecsmodule.c
index 1199671..c500073 100644
--- a/Modules/_codecsmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_codecsmodule.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
      register(search_function) -> None
 
-     lookup(encoding) -> (encoder, decoder, stream_reader, stream_writer)
+     lookup(encoding) -> CodecInfo object
 
    The builtin Unicode codecs use the following interface:
 
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
 \n\
 Register a codec search function. Search functions are expected to take\n\
 one argument, the encoding name in all lower case letters, and return\n\
-a tuple of functions (encoder, decoder, stream_reader, stream_writer).");
+a tuple of functions (encoder, decoder, stream_reader, stream_writer)\n\
+(or a CodecInfo object).");
 
 static
 PyObject *codec_register(PyObject *self, PyObject *search_function)
@@ -57,10 +58,10 @@
 }
 
 PyDoc_STRVAR(lookup__doc__,
-"lookup(encoding) -> (encoder, decoder, stream_reader, stream_writer)\n\
+"lookup(encoding) -> CodecInfo\n\
 \n\
 Looks up a codec tuple in the Python codec registry and returns\n\
-a tuple of functions.");
+a tuple of function (or a CodecInfo object).");
 
 static
 PyObject *codec_lookup(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)