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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2018-01-30 04:16:21 (GMT)
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bpo-32701: Clarify the quotetabs flag in quopri documentation (GH-5401) (GH-5438)
(cherry picked from commit 9424dcbb3e20a26dfdd81659303b989f7d3da044) Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>
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@@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ sending a graphics file.
Encode the contents of the *input* file and write the resulting quoted-printable
data to the *output* file. *input* and *output* must be
- :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a flag which controls
- whether to encode embedded spaces and tabs must be provideda and when true it
- encodes such embedded whitespace, and when false it leaves them unencoded.
+ :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a
+ non-optional flag which controls whether to encode embedded spaces
+ and tabs; when true it encodes such embedded whitespace, and when
+ false it leaves them unencoded.
Note that spaces and tabs appearing at the end of lines are always encoded,
as per :rfc:`1521`. *header* is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded
as underscores as per :rfc:`1522`.