diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/email')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/email/message.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/email/message.py b/Lib/email/message.py index 922617a..f1ffcdb 100644 --- a/Lib/email/message.py +++ b/Lib/email/message.py @@ -613,17 +613,15 @@ class Message: the form (CHARSET, LANGUAGE, VALUE). Note that both CHARSET and LANGUAGE can be None, in which case you should consider VALUE to be encoded in the us-ascii charset. You can usually ignore LANGUAGE. + The parameter value (either the returned string, or the VALUE item in + the 3-tuple) is always unquoted, unless unquote is set to False. - Your application should be prepared to deal with 3-tuple return - values, and can convert the parameter to a Unicode string like so: + If your application doesn't care whether the parameter was RFC 2231 + encoded, it can turn the return value into a string as follows: param = msg.get_param('foo') - if isinstance(param, tuple): - param = unicode(param[2], param[0] or 'us-ascii') + param = email.utils.collapse_rfc2231_value(rawparam) - In any case, the parameter value (either the returned string, or the - VALUE item in the 3-tuple) is always unquoted, unless unquote is set - to False. """ if header not in self: return failobj |