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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-17 02:06:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-17 02:06:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 0cc4e53d1d0af3e6b96b35858ffa4c11cd51e6ce (patch) | |
| tree | 0f5527eb07dc871b8e253f74457c517b788e11ef | |
| parent | dbc52f8a0d3c496e642dbc92c684f873e67f3127 (diff) | |
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#11780: document that email.encoders throw TypeError on multipart messages.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst index 5421b9f..3c32c3b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ exactly one argument, the message object to encode. They usually extract the payload, encode it, and reset the payload to this newly encoded value. They should also set the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` header as appropriate. +Note that these functions are not meaningful for a multipart message. They +must be applied to individual subparts instead, and will throw a +:exc:`TypeError` if passed a message whose type is multipart. + Here are the encoding functions provided: |