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authorR. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2010-01-10 19:18:27 (GMT)
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@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ yourself. However the bundled generator knows how to generate most email in a
standards-compliant way, should handle MIME and non-MIME email messages just
fine, and is designed so that the transformation from flat text, to a message
structure via the :class:`~email.parser.Parser` class, and back to flat text,
-is idempotent (the input is identical to the output).
+is idempotent (the input is identical to the output). On the other hand, using
+the Generator on a :class:`~email.message.Message` constructed by program may
+result in changes to the :class:`~email.message.Message` object as defaults are
+filled in.
Here are the public methods of the :class:`Generator` class, imported from the
:mod:`email.generator` module: