Issue #24824: Signatures of codecs.encode() and codecs.decode() now are

compatible with pydoc.

diff --cc Misc/NEWS
index 9bda24a083f0fce62977fa3bdc24e6325bc7e7dd,209a4b953e217ff6778c9f24825321f1ec819662..b0c5f76289523cb428258b9a135de580184dddfa
--- 1/Misc/NEWS
--- 2/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@@ -15,6 -15,13 +15,9 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
 -- Issue #24634: Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows
 -
 -- Issue #24798: _msvccompiler.py doesn't properly support manifests
 -
+ - Issue #24824: Signatures of codecs.encode() and codecs.decode() now are
+   compatible with pydoc.
+ 
  - Issue #4395: Better testing and documentation of binary operators.
    Patch by Martin Panter.