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authorBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2004-10-03 03:57:37 (GMT)
committerBarry Warsaw <barry@python.org>2004-10-03 03:57:37 (GMT)
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Updates for distutils package.
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
\title{email Package Reference}
\author{Barry Warsaw}
-\authoraddress{\email{barry@zope.com}}
+\authoraddress{\email{barry@python.org}}
\date{\today}
\release{2.5} % software release, not documentation
@@ -38,19 +38,12 @@ The \module{email} package provides classes and utilities to create,
parse, generate, and modify email messages, conforming to all the
relevant email and MIME related RFCs.
-This document describes the current version of the \module{email}
-package, which is available to Python programmers in a number of ways.
-Python 2.2.2 and 2.3 come with \module{email} version 2, while earlier
-versions of Python 2.2.x come with \module{email} version 1. Python
-2.1.x and earlier do not come with any version of the \module{email}
-package.
-
-The \module{email} package is also available as a standalone distutils
-package, and is compatible with Python 2.1.3 and beyond. Thus, if
-you're using Python 2.1.3 you can download the standalone package and
-install it in your \file{site-packages} directory. The standalone
-\module{email} package is available on the
-\ulink{SourceForge \module{mimelib} project}{http://mimelib.sf.net}.
+This document describes version 3.0 of the \module{email} package, which is
+distributed with Python 2.4 and is availble as a standalone distutils-based
+package for use with Python 2.3. \module{email} 3.0 is not compatible with
+Python versions earlier than 2.3. For more information about the
+\module{email} package, including download links and mailing lists, see
+\ulink{Python's email SIG}{http://www.python.org/sigs/email-sig}.
The documentation that follows was written for the Python project, so
if you're reading this as part of the standalone \module{email}
@@ -58,28 +51,7 @@ package documentation, there are a few notes to be aware of:
\begin{itemize}
\item Deprecation and ``version added'' notes are relative to the
- Python version a feature was added or deprecated. To find out
- what version of the \module{email} package a particular item was
- added, changed, or removed, refer to the package's
- \ulink{\file{NEWS} file}{http://cvs.sf.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/mimelib/mimelib/NEWS?rev=1.36&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup}.
-
-\item The code samples are written with Python 2.2 in mind. For
- Python 2.1.3, some adjustments are necessary. For example, this
- code snippet;
-
- \begin{verbatim}
- if isinstance(s, str):
- # ...
- \end{verbatim}
-
- would need to be written this way in Python 2.1.3:
-
- \begin{verbatim}
- from types import StringType
- # ...
- if isinstance(s, StringType):
- # ...
- \end{verbatim}
+ Python version a feature was added or deprecated.
\item If you're reading this documentation as part of the
standalone \module{email} package, some of the internal links to