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diff --git a/Doc/library/binascii.rst b/Doc/library/binascii.rst index 878d8db..4f5f0f2 100644 --- a/Doc/library/binascii.rst +++ b/Doc/library/binascii.rst @@ -53,13 +53,14 @@ The :mod:`binascii` module defines the following functions: than one line may be passed at a time. -.. function:: b2a_base64(data) +.. function:: b2a_base64(data, \*, newline=True) Convert binary data to a line of ASCII characters in base64 coding. The return - value is the converted line, including a newline char. The newline is - added because the original use case for this function was to feed it a - series of 57 byte input lines to get output lines that conform to the - MIME-base64 standard. Otherwise the output conforms to :rfc:`3548`. + value is the converted line, including a newline char if *newline* is + true. The output of this function conforms to :rfc:`3548`. + + .. versionchanged:: 3.6 + Added the *newline* parameter. .. function:: a2b_qp(data, header=False) |