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| author | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2010-01-10 19:21:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | R. David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2010-01-10 19:21:20 (GMT) |
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r77417 | r.david.murray | 2010-01-10 14:18:27 -0500 (Sun, 10 Jan 2010) | 10 lines
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r77412 | r.david.murray | 2010-01-10 12:41:28 -0500 (Sun, 10 Jan 2010) | 3 lines
Issue #7119: document that a program-generated Message object
tree may be mutated when serialized.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst index 93dda69..7e939c9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst @@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class: Return the entire message flattened as a string. When optional *unixfrom* is ``True``, the envelope header is included in the returned string. - *unixfrom* defaults to ``False``. + *unixfrom* defaults to ``False``. Flattening the message may trigger + changes to the :class:`Message` if defaults need to be filled in to + complete the transformation to a string (for example, MIME boundaries may + be generated or modified). Note that this method is provided as a convenience and may not always format the message the way you want. For example, by default it mangles |