From: Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 04:37:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: document all the valid encoding values
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6067
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3b2625ff82696e01bdec1c9e1bc51369f24bf878;p=python

document all the valid encoding values
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex b/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex
index ba12d53dce..28efec04c4 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libmimetools.tex
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ part boundary.  The string has the form
 Read data encoded using the allowed MIME \var{encoding} from open file
 object \var{input} and write the decoded data to open file object
 \var{output}.  Valid values for \var{encoding} include
-\code{'base64'}, \code{'quoted-printable'} and \code{'uuencode'}.
+\code{'base64'}, \code{'quoted-printable'}, \code{'uuencode'},
+\code{'x-uuencode'}, \code{'uue'}, \code{'x-uue'}, \code{'7bit'}, and 
+\code{'8bit'}.  Decoding messages encoded in \code{'7bit'} or \code{'8bit'}
+has no effect.  The input is simply copied to the output.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{encode}{input, output, encoding}