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Diffstat (limited to 'pyasn1/type/char.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | pyasn1/type/char.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/pyasn1/type/char.py b/pyasn1/type/char.py index ce10599..9cba4db 100644 --- a/pyasn1/type/char.py +++ b/pyasn1/type/char.py @@ -21,15 +21,19 @@ noValue = univ.noValue class AbstractCharacterString(univ.OctetString): """Creates |ASN.1| schema or value object. - |ASN.1| objects are immutable and duck-type Python 2 :class:`unicode` or Python 3 :class:`str`. - When used in octet-stream context, |ASN.1| type assumes "|encoding|" encoding. + |ASN.1| class is based on :class:`~pyasn1.type.base.SimpleAsn1Type`, + its objects are immutable and duck-type Python 2 :class:`str` or Python 3 + :class:`bytes`. When used in octet-stream context, |ASN.1| type assumes + "|encoding|" encoding. Keyword Args ------------ value: :class:`unicode`, :class:`str`, :class:`bytes` or |ASN.1| object - unicode object (Python 2) or string (Python 3), alternatively string - (Python 2) or bytes (Python 3) representing octet-stream of serialised - unicode string (note `encoding` parameter) or |ASN.1| class instance. + :class:`unicode` object (Python 2) or :class:`str` (Python 3), + alternatively :class:`str` (Python 2) or :class:`bytes` (Python 3) + representing octet-stream of serialised unicode string + (note `encoding` parameter) or |ASN.1| class instance. + If `value` is not given, schema object will be created. tagSet: :py:class:`~pyasn1.type.tag.TagSet` Object representing non-default ASN.1 tag(s) @@ -44,7 +48,7 @@ class AbstractCharacterString(univ.OctetString): Raises ------ - ~pyasn1.error.PyAsn1Error + ~pyasn1.error.ValueConstraintError, ~pyasn1.error.PyAsn1Error On constraint violation or bad initializer. """ |