Patch #462190, patch #464070: Support quoted printable in the binascii module.

Decode and encode underscores for header style encoding. Fixes bug #463996.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex b/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex
index a569a47..0ce0996 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbinascii.tex
@@ -40,6 +40,24 @@ The length of \var{data} should be at most 57 to adhere to the base64
 standard.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
+\begin{funcdesc}{a2b_qp}{string\optional{, header}}
+Convert a block of quoted-printable data back to binary and return the
+binary data. More than one line may be passed at a time.
+If the optional argument \var{header} is present and true, underscores
+will be decoded as spaces.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
+\begin{funcdesc}{b2a_qp}{data\optional{, quotetabs, istext, header}}
+Convert binary data to a line(s) of \ASCII{} characters in
+quoted-printable encoding.  The return value is the converted line(s).
+If the optional argument \var{quotetabs} is present and true, all tabs
+and spaces will be encoded.  If the optional argument \var{header} is
+present and true, spaces will be encoded as underscores per RFC1522.
+If the optional argument \var{header} is present and false, newline
+characters will be encoded as well, otherwise linefeed conversion might
+corrupt the binary data stream.
+\end{funcdesc}
+
 \begin{funcdesc}{a2b_hqx}{string}
 Convert binhex4 formatted \ASCII{} data to binary, without doing
 RLE-decompression. The string should contain a complete number of
@@ -118,4 +136,6 @@ again.
   \seemodule{binhex}{Support for the binhex format used on the Macintosh.}
 
   \seemodule{uu}{Support for UU encoding used on \UNIX.}
+
+  \seemodule{quopri}{Support for quoted-printable encoding used in MIME email messages. }
 \end{seealso}