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Issue #23231: Merge codecs doc from 3.5 into 3.6

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@ -224,6 +224,10 @@ wider range of codecs when working with binary files:
The *errors* argument (as well as any
other keyword argument) is passed through to the incremental encoder.
This function requires that the codec accept text :class:`str` objects
to encode. Therefore it does not support bytes-to-bytes encoders such as
``base64_codec``.
.. function:: iterdecode(iterator, encoding, errors='strict', **kwargs)
@ -232,6 +236,11 @@ wider range of codecs when working with binary files:
The *errors* argument (as well as any
other keyword argument) is passed through to the incremental decoder.
This function requires that the codec accept :class:`bytes` objects
to decode. Therefore it does not support text-to-text encoders such as
``rot_13``, although ``rot_13`` may be used equivalently with
:func:`iterencode`.
The module also provides the following constants which are useful for reading
and writing to platform dependent files: