From: Cheryl Sabella Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 20:18:41 +0000 (-0400) Subject: bpo-15115: Document deprecation of email.encoders in Python 3 (GH-5354) X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0b1~90 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a747c3a5edf21fa5670bc30f5e1d804de89ebf62;p=python bpo-15115: Document deprecation of email.encoders in Python 3 (GH-5354) --- diff --git a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst index 70bf61323c..e4752a5edf 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ This module is part of the legacy (``Compat32``) email API. In the new API the functionality is provided by the *cte* parameter of the :meth:`~email.message.EmailMessage.set_content` method. +This module is deprecated in Python 3. The functions provided here +should not be called explicitly since the :class:`~email.mime.text.MIMEText` +class sets the content type and CTE header using the *_subtype* and *_charset* +values passed during the instaniation of that class. + The remaining text in this section is the original documentation of the module. When creating :class:`~email.message.Message` objects from scratch, you often