codecs.getincrementaldecoder(encoding) Look up the codec for the given encoding and return its incremental decoder class or

class codecs.StreamWriter(stream, errors='strict') Constructor for a StreamWriter instance. All

getstate() Return the current state of the decoder. This must be a tuple with two items, the first must be the buffer containing

class codecs.CodecInfo(encode, decode, streamreader=None, streamwriter=None, incrementalencoder=None, incrementaldecoder=None, name=None)

Codec.decode(input[, errors]) Decodes the object input and returns a tuple (output object, length consumed). For instance

struct.unpack(fmt, buffer) Unpack from the buffer buffer (presumably packed by pack(fmt, ...)) according

codecs.lookup(encoding) Looks up the codec info in the Python codec registry and returns a CodecInfo object as

encodings.idna.ToUnicode(label) Convert a label to Unicode, as specified in

reset() Reset the decoder to the initial state.

writelines(list) Writes the concatenated list of strings to the stream (possibly by reusing the write() method)