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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>1999-01-14 21:26:54 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>1999-01-14 21:26:54 (GMT)
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for method getaddrlist(): Added a note clarifying that all named
headers and their continuation lines are parsed.
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@@ -173,6 +173,10 @@ returns a list of \code{(\var{full name}, \var{email address})} pairs
(even if there was only one address in the header). If there is no
header matching \var{name}, return an empty list.
+If multiple headers exist that match the named header (e.g. if there
+are several \code{Cc} headers), all are parsed for addresses. Any
+continuation lines the named headers contain are also parsed.
+
XXX The current version of this function is not really correct. It
yields bogus results if a full name contains a comma.
\end{methoddesc}