[Python-checkins] bpo-32701: Clarify the quotetabs flag in quopri documentation (GH-5401) (GH-5438)

[Mariatta]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/04f99ba9d7186278eaf072e9a62c03aa63a8a6bb
commit: 04f99ba9d7186278eaf072e9a62c03aa63a8a6bb
branch: 3.6
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Mariatta <Mariatta at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2018-01-29T20:16:21-08:00
summary:

bpo-32701: Clarify the quotetabs flag in quopri documentation (GH-5401) (GH-5438)

(cherry picked from commit 9424dcbb3e20a26dfdd81659303b989f7d3da044)

Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien at palard.fr>

files:
M Doc/library/quopri.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/quopri.rst b/Doc/library/quopri.rst
index a3f94a0ad066..86717c00c3c1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/quopri.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/quopri.rst
@@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ sending a graphics file.
 
    Encode the contents of the *input* file and write the resulting quoted-printable
    data to the *output* file. *input* and *output* must be
-   :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a flag which controls
-   whether to encode embedded spaces and tabs must be provideda and when true it
-   encodes such embedded whitespace, and when false it leaves them unencoded.
+   :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a
+   non-optional flag which controls whether to encode embedded spaces
+   and tabs; when true it encodes such embedded whitespace, and when
+   false it leaves them unencoded.
    Note that spaces and tabs appearing at the end of lines are always encoded,
    as per :rfc:`1521`.  *header* is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded
    as underscores as per :rfc:`1522`.