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diff --git a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst index 0f6aba1..2d8ba71 100644 --- a/Doc/library/mailbox.rst +++ b/Doc/library/mailbox.rst @@ -674,8 +674,8 @@ Supported mailbox formats are Maildir, mbox, MH, Babyl, and MMDF. In Babyl mailboxes, the headers of a message are not stored contiguously with the body of the message. To generate a file-like representation, the - headers and body are copied together into a :class:`StringIO` instance - (from the :mod:`StringIO` module), which has an API identical to that of a + headers and body are copied together into a :class:`io.BytesIO` instance, + which has an API identical to that of a file. As a result, the file-like object is truly independent of the underlying mailbox but does not save memory compared to a string representation. |