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authorThomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>2006-04-21 10:40:58 (GMT)
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Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair
number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers): http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The tests that are expected to break are: test_codecencodings_cn test_codecencodings_hk test_codecencodings_jp test_codecencodings_kr test_codecencodings_tw test_codecs test_multibytecodec This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch, though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.
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+++ b/Doc/lib/emailmessage.tex
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-\declaremodule{standard}{email.Message}
+\declaremodule{standard}{email.message}
\modulesynopsis{The base class representing email messages.}
The central class in the \module{email} package is the
-\class{Message} class; it is the base class for the \module{email}
-object model. \class{Message} provides the core functionality for
-setting and querying header fields, and for accessing message bodies.
+\class{Message} class, imported from the \module{email.message} module. It is
+the base class for the \module{email} object model. \class{Message} provides
+the core functionality for setting and querying header fields, and for
+accessing message bodies.
Conceptually, a \class{Message} object consists of \emph{headers} and
\emph{payloads}. Headers are \rfc{2822} style field names and
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ begin with \code{From }. For more flexibility, instantiate a
\begin{verbatim}
from cStringIO import StringIO
-from email.Generator import Generator
+from email.generator import Generator
fp = StringIO()
g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_=False, maxheaderlen=60)
g.flatten(msg)
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ client's responsibility to ensure the payload invariants. Optional
\begin{methoddesc}[Message]{set_charset}{charset}
Set the character set of the payload to \var{charset}, which can
-either be a \class{Charset} instance (see \refmodule{email.Charset}), a
+either be a \class{Charset} instance (see \refmodule{email.charset}), a
string naming a character set,
or \code{None}. If it is a string, it will be converted to a
\class{Charset} instance. If \var{charset} is \code{None}, the
@@ -128,8 +129,8 @@ or \code{None}. If it is a string, it will be converted to a
\exception{TypeError}.
The message will be assumed to be of type \mimetype{text/*} encoded with
-\code{charset.input_charset}. It will be converted to
-\code{charset.output_charset}
+\var{charset.input_charset}. It will be converted to
+\var{charset.output_charset}
and encoded properly, if needed, when generating the plain text
representation of the message. MIME headers
(\mailheader{MIME-Version}, \mailheader{Content-Type},
@@ -513,6 +514,9 @@ message/rfc822
\end{verbatim}
\end{methoddesc}
+\versionchanged[The previously deprecated methods \method{get_type()},
+\method{get_main_type()}, and \method{get_subtype()} were removed]{2.5}
+
\class{Message} objects can also optionally contain two instance
attributes, which can be used when generating the plain text of a MIME
message.
@@ -532,7 +536,7 @@ to the message's \var{preamble} attribute. When the \class{Generator}
is writing out the plain text representation of a MIME message, and it
finds the message has a \var{preamble} attribute, it will write this
text in the area between the headers and the first boundary. See
-\refmodule{email.Parser} and \refmodule{email.Generator} for details.
+\refmodule{email.parser} and \refmodule{email.generator} for details.
Note that if the message object has no preamble, the
\var{preamble} attribute will be \code{None}.
@@ -543,58 +547,15 @@ The \var{epilogue} attribute acts the same way as the \var{preamble}
attribute, except that it contains text that appears between the last
boundary and the end of the message.
-One note: when generating the flat text for a \mimetype{multipart}
-message that has no \var{epilogue} (using the standard
-\class{Generator} class), no newline is added after the closing
-boundary line. If the message object has an \var{epilogue} and its
-value does not start with a newline, a newline is printed after the
-closing boundary. This seems a little clumsy, but it makes the most
-practical sense. The upshot is that if you want to ensure that a
-newline get printed after your closing \mimetype{multipart} boundary,
-set the \var{epilogue} to the empty string.
+\versionchanged[You do not need to set the epilogue to the empty string in
+order for the \class{Generator} to print a newline at the end of the
+file]{2.5}
\end{datadesc}
\begin{datadesc}{defects}
The \var{defects} attribute contains a list of all the problems found when
-parsing this message. See \refmodule{email.Errors} for a detailed description
+parsing this message. See \refmodule{email.errors} for a detailed description
of the possible parsing defects.
\versionadded{2.4}
\end{datadesc}
-
-\subsubsection{Deprecated methods}
-
-\versionchanged[The \method{add_payload()} method was removed; use the
-\method{attach()} method instead]{2.4}
-
-The following methods are deprecated. They are documented here for
-completeness.
-
-\begin{methoddesc}[Message]{get_type}{\optional{failobj}}
-Return the message's content type, as a string of the form
-\mimetype{maintype/subtype} as taken from the
-\mailheader{Content-Type} header.
-The returned string is coerced to lowercase.
-
-If there is no \mailheader{Content-Type} header in the message,
-\var{failobj} is returned (defaults to \code{None}).
-
-\deprecated{2.2.2}{Use the \method{get_content_type()} method instead.}
-\end{methoddesc}
-
-\begin{methoddesc}[Message]{get_main_type}{\optional{failobj}}
-Return the message's \emph{main} content type. This essentially returns the
-\var{maintype} part of the string returned by \method{get_type()}, with the
-same semantics for \var{failobj}.
-
-\deprecated{2.2.2}{Use the \method{get_content_maintype()} method instead.}
-\end{methoddesc}
-
-\begin{methoddesc}[Message]{get_subtype}{\optional{failobj}}
-Return the message's sub-content type. This essentially returns the
-\var{subtype} part of the string returned by \method{get_type()}, with the
-same semantics for \var{failobj}.
-
-\deprecated{2.2.2}{Use the \method{get_content_subtype()} method instead.}
-\end{methoddesc}
-