From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:06:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5159
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=78e057a32a92c3bfb464b27a02f4931c474769e8;p=python

Clarify the version information for the unicode() built-in.
Closes SF bug #575272.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
index dbd3d55d19..793e4725f6 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex
@@ -873,13 +873,16 @@ def my_import(name):
   behaviour of \code{str()} except that it returns Unicode strings
   instead of 8-bit strings. More precisely, if \var{object} is an
   Unicode string or subclass it will return a Unicode string without
-  any additional decoding applied. For objects which provide a
-  \code{__unicode__} method, it will call this method without
-  arguments to create a Unicode string. For all other objects, the
-  8-bit string version or representation is requested and then
-  converted to a Unicode string using the codec for the default
-  encoding in \code{'strict'} mode.
+  any additional decoding applied.
+
+  For objects which provide a \method{__unicode__()} method, it will
+  call this method without arguments to create a Unicode string. For
+  all other objects, the 8-bit string version or representation is
+  requested and then converted to a Unicode string using the codec for
+  the default encoding in \code{'strict'} mode.
+
   \versionadded{2.0}
+  \versionchanged[Support for \method{__unicode__()} added]{2.2}
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{vars}{\optional{object}}