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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/email.message.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst index 11984a5..ebe2d9c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst @@ -46,15 +46,16 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class: be generated or modified). Note that this method is provided as a convenience and may not always - format the message the way you want. For example, by default it mangles - lines that begin with ``From``. For more flexibility, instantiate a + format the message the way you want. For example, by default it does + not do the mangling of lines that begin with ``From`` that is + required by the unix mbox format. For more flexibility, instantiate a :class:`~email.generator.Generator` instance and use its :meth:`flatten` method directly. For example:: from io import StringIO from email.generator import Generator fp = StringIO() - g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_=False, maxheaderlen=60) + g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_=True, maxheaderlen=60) g.flatten(msg) text = fp.getvalue() |