Merge #11780: document that email.encoders throw TypeError on multipart messages.

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R David Murray 2012-03-16 22:04:25 -04:00
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@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ exactly one argument, the message object to encode. They usually extract the
payload, encode it, and reset the payload to this newly encoded value. They
should also set the :mailheader:`Content-Transfer-Encoding` header as appropriate.
Note that these functions are not meaningful for a multipart message. They
must be applied to individual subparts instead, and will throw a
:exc:`TypeError` if passed a message whose type is multipart.
Here are the encoding functions provided: