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diff --git a/Doc/lib/email.tex b/Doc/lib/email.tex index f25c86d..47bbf5b 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/email.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/email.tex @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ following differences: \begin{itemize} \item The \module{email.Header} and \module{email.Charset} modules have been added. + \item The pickle format for \class{Message} instances has changed. Since this was never (and still isn't) formally defined, this isn't considered a backward incompatibility. However if your @@ -107,11 +108,13 @@ following differences: aware that in \module{email} version 2, \class{Message} instances now have private variables \var{_charset} and \var{_default_type}. + \item Several methods in the \class{Message} class have been deprecated, or their signatures changed. Also, many new methods have been added. See the documentation for the \class{Message} class for details. The changes should be completely backward compatible. + \item The object structure has changed in the face of \mimetype{message/rfc822} content types. In \module{email} version 1, such a type would be represented by a scalar payload, @@ -132,29 +135,36 @@ following differences: fine. You just need to make sure your code doesn't do a \method{set_payload()} with a \class{Message} instance on a container with a content type of \mimetype{message/rfc822}. + \item The \class{Parser} constructor's \var{strict} argument was added, and its \method{parse()} and \method{parsestr()} methods grew a \var{headersonly} argument. The \var{strict} flag was also added to functions \function{email.message_from_file()} and \function{email.message_from_string()}. + \item \method{Generator.__call__()} is deprecated; use \method{Generator.flatten()} instead. The \class{Generator} class has also grown the \method{clone()} method. + \item The \class{DecodedGenerator} class in the \module{email.Generator} module was added. + \item The intermediate base classes \class{MIMENonMultipart} and \class{MIMEMultipart} have been added, and interposed in the class hierarchy for most of the other MIME-related derived classes. + \item The \var{_encoder} argument to the \class{MIMEText} constructor has been deprecated. Encoding now happens implicitly based on the \var{_charset} argument. + \item The following functions in the \module{email.Utils} module have been deprecated: \function{dump_address_pairs()}, \function{decode()}, and \function{encode()}. The following functions have been added to the module: \function{make_msgid()}, \function{decode_rfc2231()}, \function{encode_rfc2231()}, and \function{decode_params()}. + \item The non-public function \function{email.Iterators._structure()} was added. \end{itemize} @@ -184,47 +194,65 @@ addition, the top-level package has the following differences: \begin{itemize} \item \function{messageFromString()} has been renamed to \function{message_from_string()}. + \item \function{messageFromFile()} has been renamed to \function{message_from_file()}. + \end{itemize} The \class{Message} class has the following differences: \begin{itemize} \item The method \method{asString()} was renamed to \method{as_string()}. + \item The method \method{ismultipart()} was renamed to \method{is_multipart()}. + \item The \method{get_payload()} method has grown a \var{decode} optional argument. + \item The method \method{getall()} was renamed to \method{get_all()}. + \item The method \method{addheader()} was renamed to \method{add_header()}. + \item The method \method{gettype()} was renamed to \method{get_type()}. + \item The method\method{getmaintype()} was renamed to \method{get_main_type()}. + \item The method \method{getsubtype()} was renamed to \method{get_subtype()}. + \item The method \method{getparams()} was renamed to \method{get_params()}. Also, whereas \method{getparams()} returned a list of strings, \method{get_params()} returns a list of 2-tuples, effectively the key/value pairs of the parameters, split on the \character{=} sign. + \item The method \method{getparam()} was renamed to \method{get_param()}. + \item The method \method{getcharsets()} was renamed to \method{get_charsets()}. + \item The method \method{getfilename()} was renamed to \method{get_filename()}. + \item The method \method{getboundary()} was renamed to \method{get_boundary()}. + \item The method \method{setboundary()} was renamed to \method{set_boundary()}. + \item The method \method{getdecodedpayload()} was removed. To get similar functionality, pass the value 1 to the \var{decode} flag of the {get_payload()} method. + \item The method \method{getpayloadastext()} was removed. Similar functionality is supported by the \class{DecodedGenerator} class in the \refmodule{email.Generator} module. + \item The method \method{getbodyastext()} was removed. You can get similar functionality by creating an iterator with \function{typed_subpart_iterator()} in the @@ -251,12 +279,15 @@ The following modules and classes have been changed: \item The \class{MIMEBase} class constructor arguments \var{_major} and \var{_minor} have changed to \var{_maintype} and \var{_subtype} respectively. + \item The \code{Image} class/module has been renamed to \code{MIMEImage}. The \var{_minor} argument has been renamed to \var{_subtype}. + \item The \code{Text} class/module has been renamed to \code{MIMEText}. The \var{_minor} argument has been renamed to \var{_subtype}. + \item The \code{MessageRFC822} class/module has been renamed to \code{MIMEMessage}. Note that an earlier version of \module{mimelib} called this class/module \code{RFC822}, but |