From: R. David Murray Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:18:27 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Merged revisions 77412 via svnmerge from X-Git-Tag: v3.2a1~1866 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=101f27805c975959d6307300db078f3b7d04cf5e;p=python Merged revisions 77412 via svnmerge from svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r77412 | r.david.murray | 2010-01-10 12:41:28 -0500 (Sun, 10 Jan 2010) | 3 lines Issue #7119: document that a program-generated Message object tree may be mutated when serialized. ........ --- diff --git a/Doc/library/email.generator.rst b/Doc/library/email.generator.rst index 2061f7645f..ba38f68514 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.generator.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.generator.rst @@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ yourself. However the bundled generator knows how to generate most email in a standards-compliant way, should handle MIME and non-MIME email messages just fine, and is designed so that the transformation from flat text, to a message structure via the :class:`~email.parser.Parser` class, and back to flat text, -is idempotent (the input is identical to the output). +is idempotent (the input is identical to the output). On the other hand, using +the Generator on a :class:`~email.message.Message` constructed by program may +result in changes to the :class:`~email.message.Message` object as defaults are +filled in. Here are the public methods of the :class:`Generator` class, imported from the :mod:`email.generator` module: diff --git a/Doc/library/email.message.rst b/Doc/library/email.message.rst index 93dda698b2..7e939c91eb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.message.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.message.rst @@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class: Return the entire message flattened as a string. When optional *unixfrom* is ``True``, the envelope header is included in the returned string. - *unixfrom* defaults to ``False``. + *unixfrom* defaults to ``False``. Flattening the message may trigger + changes to the :class:`Message` if defaults need to be filled in to + complete the transformation to a string (for example, MIME boundaries may + 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 diff --git a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst index 703110abce..9cd94d8926 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.mime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.mime.rst @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ Here are the classes: also be added. Optional *boundary* is the multipart boundary string. When ``None`` (the - default), the boundary is calculated when needed. + default), the boundary is calculated when needed (for example, when the + message is serialized). *_subparts* is a sequence of initial subparts for the payload. It must be possible to convert this sequence to a list. You can always attach new subparts