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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2016-09-08 01:15:59 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2016-09-08 01:15:59 (GMT) |
| commit | 29d1bc0842e5b086813aa7de4ab18f1c192d2291 (patch) | |
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#24277: The new email API is no longer provisional.
This is a wholesale reorganization and editing of the email documentation to
make the new API the standard one, and the old API the 'legacy' one. The
default is still the compat32 policy, for backward compatibility. We will
change that eventually.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst index 9d7f9bf..e24ac7b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ -------------- +This module is part of the legacy (``Compat32``) email API. In the +new API the functionality is provided by the *cte* parameter of +the :meth:`~email.message.EmailMessage.set_content` method. + +The remaining text in this section is the original documentation of the module. + When creating :class:`~email.message.Message` objects from scratch, you often need to encode the payloads for transport through compliant mail servers. This is especially true for :mimetype:`image/\*` and :mimetype:`text/\*` type messages |