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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-06-02 17:30:03 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1997-06-02 17:30:03 (GMT) |
| commit | 067a2acdf69d11893e0164ebeac8436c67464b2a (patch) | |
| tree | 60a8d6f22dc17380205ecf780c75cd3e50adf246 /Doc/lib | |
| parent | bac80022e461247de1294cc37168c2a600511461 (diff) | |
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Mention seekable parameter (AMK).
Added pointer to mailbox module.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/librfc822.tex | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex index 9b2094f..3617e8a 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex @@ -8,9 +8,14 @@ collection of ``email headers'' as defined by the Internet standard RFC 822. It is used in various contexts, usually to read such headers from a file. +(Note that there's a separate, currently undocumented, module to read +Unix style mailbox files: \code{mailbox}.) + A \code{Message} instance is instantiated with an open file object as -parameter. Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank -line and stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is +parameter. The optional \code{seekable} parameter indicates if the +file object is seekable; the default value is 1 for true. +Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank line and +stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is positioned directly after the blank line that terminates the headers. Input lines as read from the file may either be terminated by CR-LF or |