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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-17 02:04:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2012-03-17 02:04:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 1ad2eeaa9946340b1a1191385190a3253eb2cff5 (patch) | |
| tree | 62b760d154a995c1502efb855f7d5c0a30226947 /Doc | |
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Merge #11780: document that email.encoders throw TypeError on multipart messages.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst index 5421b9f..3c32c3b 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ exactly one argument, the message object to encode. They usually extract the payload, encode it, and reset the payload to this newly encoded value. They should also set the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` header as appropriate. +Note that these functions are not meaningful for a multipart message. They +must be applied to individual subparts instead, and will throw a +:exc:`TypeError` if passed a message whose type is multipart. + Here are the encoding functions provided: |