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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-05-07 01:33:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-05-07 01:33:18 (GMT) |
| commit | e25244657c5be459a98be06c745c35ff8a216c36 (patch) | |
| tree | 00459a94dbf79f3037f4d698eccb307c1bc6e079 /Lib/email | |
| parent | 3d139d8ed6712f39f4e91dc084ed421b76af09ae (diff) | |
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#21300: Clean up the docs for the email "policy" arguments.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/email/generator.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/email/generator.py b/Lib/email/generator.py index 1535210..4735721 100644 --- a/Lib/email/generator.py +++ b/Lib/email/generator.py @@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ class Generator: by RFC 2822. The policy keyword specifies a policy object that controls a number of - aspects of the generator's operation. The default policy maintains - backward compatibility. + aspects of the generator's operation. If no policy is specified, + the policy associated with the Message object passed to the + flatten method is used. """ self._fp = outfp @@ -76,7 +77,9 @@ class Generator: Note that for subobjects, no From_ line is printed. linesep specifies the characters used to indicate a new line in - the output. The default value is determined by the policy. + the output. The default value is determined by the policy specified + when the Generator instance was created or, if none was specified, + from the policy associated with the msg. """ # We use the _XXX constants for operating on data that comes directly |