https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/326fe0df66afbe94475e5609adeb1ea7a4956899
commit: 326fe0df66afbe94475e5609adeb1ea7a4956899
branch: 3.14
author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]>
committer: malemburg <[email protected]>
date: 2025-07-10T17:41:31+02:00
summary:

[3.14] gh-82663: Clarify `codecs.iterdecode/encode` docs (GH-136497) (#136513)

gh-82663: Clarify `codecs.iterdecode/encode` docs (GH-136497)

Closes GH-82663
(cherry picked from commit 4b41b2043b110a38616ff86ddb3f065ae7f15c3e)

Co-authored-by: Stan Ulbrych <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/codecs.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/codecs.rst b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
index 0e84f18dd4d5d5..37bd913b765d21 100644
--- a/Doc/library/codecs.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/codecs.rst
@@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ wider range of codecs when working with binary files:
 .. function:: iterencode(iterator, encoding, errors='strict', **kwargs)
 
    Uses an incremental encoder to iteratively encode the input provided by
-   *iterator*. This function is a :term:`generator`.
-   The *errors* argument (as well as any
+   *iterator*. *iterator* must yield :class:`str` objects.
+   This function is a :term:`generator`. 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
@@ -255,8 +255,8 @@ wider range of codecs when working with binary files:
 .. function:: iterdecode(iterator, encoding, errors='strict', **kwargs)
 
    Uses an incremental decoder to iteratively decode the input provided by
-   *iterator*. This function is a :term:`generator`.
-   The *errors* argument (as well as any
+   *iterator*. *iterator* must yield :class:`bytes` objects.
+   This function is a :term:`generator`. 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

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