def METHOD_NAME(encoding):
    # Cache lookup
    entry = _cache.get(encoding, _unknown)
    if entry is not _unknown:
        return entry
    # Import the module:
    #
    # First try to find an alias for the normalized encoding
    # name and lookup the module using the aliased name, then try to
    # lookup the module using the standard import scheme, i.e. first
    # try in the encodings package, then at top-level.
    #
    norm_encoding = normalize_encoding(encoding)
    aliased_encoding = _aliases.get(norm_encoding) or \
                       _aliases.get(norm_encoding.replace('.', '_'))
    if aliased_encoding is not None:
        modnames = [aliased_encoding,
                    norm_encoding]
    else:
        modnames = [norm_encoding]
    for modname in modnames:
        if not modname or '.' in modname:
            continue
        try:
            # Import is absolute to prevent the possibly malicious import of a
            # module with side-effects that is not in the 'encodings' package.
            mod = __import__('encodings.' + modname, fromlist=_import_tail,
                             level=0)
        except ImportError:
            pass
        else:
            break
    else:
        mod = None
    try:
        getregentry = mod.getregentry
    except AttributeError:
        # Not a codec module
        mod = None
    if mod is None:
        # Cache misses
        _cache[encoding] = None
        return None
    # Now ask the module for the registry entry
    entry = getregentry()
    if not isinstance(entry, codecs.CodecInfo):
        if not 4 <= len(entry) <= 7:
            raise CodecRegistryError('module "%s" (%s) failed to register'
                                     % (mod.__name__, mod.__file__))
        if not callable(entry[0]) or not callable(entry[1]) or \
           (entry[2] is not None and not callable(entry[2])) or \
           (entry[3] is not None and not callable(entry[3])) or \
           (len(entry) > 4 and entry[4] is not None and not callable(entry[4])) or \
           (len(entry) > 5 and entry[5] is not None and not callable(entry[5])):
            raise CodecRegistryError('incompatible codecs in module "%s" (%s)'
                                     % (mod.__name__, mod.__file__))
        if len(entry)<7 or entry[6] is None:
            entry += (None,)*(6-len(entry)) + (mod.__name__.split(".", 1)[1],)
        entry = codecs.CodecInfo(*entry)
    # Cache the codec registry entry
    _cache[encoding] = entry
    # Register its aliases (without overwriting previously registered
    # aliases)
    try:
        codecaliases = mod.getaliases()
    except AttributeError:
        pass
    else:
        for alias in codecaliases:
            if alias not in _aliases:
                _aliases[alias] = modname
    # Return the registry entry
    return entry