!codecs --- Codec registry and base classes — !encodings --- Encodings package

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). synopsis: Encodings package This module implements the following functions Normalize encoding name encoding. Normalization works as follows: all non-alphanumeric characters except the dot used for Python package names are collapsed and replaced with a single underscore, leading and trailing underscores are removed. For example, ' -;#' becomes '_'. Note that encoding should be ASCII only. The following functions should not be used directly, except for testing purposes; codecs.lookup should be used instead. Search for the codec module corresponding to the given encoding name encoding. This function first normalizes the encoding using normalize_encoding, then looks for a corresponding alias. It attempts to import a codec module from the encodings package using either the alias or the normalized name. If the module is found and defines a valid getregentry() function that returns a cod Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.