Codecs should raise precise UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError

[pitrou]

BPO	41115
Nosy	@malemburg, @doerwalter, @pitrou, @benjaminp, @ezio-melotti, @serhiy-storchaka, @srinivasreddy, @eamanu, @utkarsh261
PRs	gh-85287: Convert UnicodeError to UnicodeEncodeError| UnicodeDecodeError #21165 bpo-41115: Modified src to raise rather Unicode{Encode, Decode}Error rather than plain UnicodeError #21170

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labels = ['easy', 'type-bug', '3.8', '3.9', '3.7', 'library']
title = 'Codecs should raise precise UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError'
updated_at = <Date 2020-06-26.16:59:17.544>
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• gh-85287: Change codecs to raise precise UnicodeEncodeError and UnicodeDecodeError #113674

[pitrou]

A number of codecs raise bare UnicodeError, rather than Unicode{Decode,Encode}Error. Example:

File "/home/antoine/miniconda3/envs/pyarrow/lib/python3.7/encodings/utf_16.py", line 67, in _buffer_decode
raise UnicodeError("UTF-16 stream does not start with BOM")

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https://gist.github.com/pitrou/60594b28d8e47edcdb97d9b15d5f9866

[srinivasreddy]

This looks like an easy task. Shall I create a PR?

[eamanu]

Hi,

IMO this can be mark as an easy issue.

@thatiparthy please, go ahead