Document encoding detection behavior for unknown encodings. #2733
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Closes #2732
What do these changes do?
Document that sometimes, cchardet might detect encodings that Python doesn't know. In such cases,
.text()
function might raise aLookupError
, andget_encoding
may return values that are unsafe to pass tobytes.decode()
or to.text()
functions.Are there changes in behavior for the user?
No.
Related issue number
#2732
Checklist
CONTRIBUTORS.txt
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