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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-02-19 17:17:31 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2013-02-19 17:17:31 (GMT) |
| commit | 774a39f26ef2fa8ed96f3c52d3edac5e93926b4b (patch) | |
| tree | a7fb7a639755bc6843c6189d9b928e0039433bcd /Doc/library | |
| parent | 6b30759022d836099a0844983816edaa5e64f52f (diff) | |
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#13700: Make imap.authenticate with authobject work.
This fixes a bytes/string confusion in the API which prevented
custom authobjects from working at all.
Original patch by Erno Tukia.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/imaplib.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/imaplib.rst b/Doc/library/imaplib.rst index 3f45c95..da6cc8c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imaplib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imaplib.rst @@ -176,9 +176,10 @@ An :class:`IMAP4` instance has the following methods: data = authobject(response) - It will be called to process server continuation responses. It should return - ``data`` that will be encoded and sent to server. It should return ``None`` if - the client abort response ``*`` should be sent instead. + It will be called to process server continuation responses; the *response* + argument it is passed will be ``bytes``. It should return ``bytes`` *data* + that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server. It should return + ``None`` if the client abort response ``*`` should be sent instead. .. method:: IMAP4.check() |