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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-09-10 04:22:25 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-09-10 04:22:25 (GMT)
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#20476: Deal with the message_factory circular import differently.
It turns out we can't depend on email.message getting imported every place message_factory is needed, so to avoid a circular import we need to special case Policy.message_factory=None in the parser instead of using monkey patching. I had a feeling that was a bad idea when I did it.
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diff --git a/Lib/email/_policybase.py b/Lib/email/_policybase.py
index d699484..df46496 100644
--- a/Lib/email/_policybase.py
+++ b/Lib/email/_policybase.py
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ class Policy(_PolicyBase, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
serialized by a generator. Default: True.
message_factory -- the class to use to create new message objects.
+ If the value is None, the default is Message.
"""
@@ -163,7 +164,6 @@ class Policy(_PolicyBase, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
cte_type = '8bit'
max_line_length = 78
mangle_from_ = False
- # XXX To avoid circular imports, this is set in email.message.
message_factory = None
def handle_defect(self, obj, defect):