Add generic codecs.encode() and .decode() APIs that don't impose
any restriction on the return type (like unicode.encode() et al. do).
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
index b7abedd..c428c61 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_codecs.py
@@ -336,6 +336,15 @@
def test_builtin(self):
self.assertEquals(unicode("python.org", "idna"), u"python.org")
+class CodecsModuleTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+ def test_decode(self):
+ self.assertEquals(codecs.decode('\xe4\xf6\xfc', 'latin-1'),
+ u'\xe4\xf6\xfc')
+ def test_encode(self):
+ self.assertEquals(codecs.encode(u'\xe4\xf6\xfc', 'latin-1'),
+ '\xe4\xf6\xfc')
+
def test_main():
test_support.run_unittest(
UTF16Test,
@@ -343,7 +352,8 @@
RecodingTest,
PunycodeTest,
NameprepTest,
- CodecTest
+ CodecTest,
+ CodecsModuleTest
)