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Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/email')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/email/header.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/email/header.py b/Lib/email/header.py index 8c32514..2562b30 100644 --- a/Lib/email/header.py +++ b/Lib/email/header.py @@ -66,9 +66,15 @@ def decode_header(header): otherwise a lower-case string containing the name of the character set specified in the encoded string. + header may be a string that may or may not contain RFC2047 encoded words, + or it may be a Header object. + An email.errors.HeaderParseError may be raised when certain decoding error occurs (e.g. a base64 decoding exception). """ + # If it is a Header object, we can just return the chunks. + if hasattr(header, '_chunks'): + return list(header._chunks) # If no encoding, just return the header with no charset. if not ecre.search(header): return [(header, None)] |