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| author | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2003-03-06 06:06:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2003-03-06 06:06:54 (GMT) |
| commit | f32e3139143f39ec4e4719d70eeee12add9a2598 (patch) | |
| tree | 388d594d540e4edaf4e3ca91037c2ca5f6aa2f88 /Doc | |
| parent | 10627ba9b8c03064e288cafc900aa3830fb5a40d (diff) | |
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Describe the new Header.encode() argument "splitchars".
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/emailheaders.tex b/Doc/lib/emailheaders.tex index 8d5964b..d4bbeb8 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/emailheaders.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/emailheaders.tex @@ -109,10 +109,13 @@ Optional \var{errors} is passed through to any \function{unicode()} or \function{ustr.encode()} call, and defaults to ``strict''. \end{methoddesc} -\begin{methoddesc}[Header]{encode}{} +\begin{methoddesc}[Header]{encode}{\optional{splitchars}} Encode a message header into an RFC-compliant format, possibly wrapping long lines and encapsulating non-\ASCII{} parts in base64 or -quoted-printable encodings. +quoted-printable encodings. Optional \var{splitchars} is a string +containing characters to split long ASCII lines on, in rough support +of \rfc{2822}'s \emph{highest level syntactic breaks}. This doesn't +affect \rfc{2047} encoded lines. \end{methoddesc} The \class{Header} class also provides a number of methods to support |