[Python-checkins] bpo-15115: Document deprecation of email.encoders in Python 3 (GH-5354)
Cheryl Sabella
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Fri May 31 16:19:02 EDT 2019
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a747c3a5edf21fa5670bc30f5e1d804de89ebf62
commit: a747c3a5edf21fa5670bc30f5e1d804de89ebf62
branch: master
author: Cheryl Sabella <cheryl.sabella at gmail.com>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2019-05-31T16:18:41-04:00
summary:
bpo-15115: Document deprecation of email.encoders in Python 3 (GH-5354)
files:
M Doc/library/email.encoders.rst
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst
index 70bf61323c39..e4752a5edf84 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
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