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Add maxlinelen to docstring, delete obsolete wording

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R David Murray 2011-04-12 15:00:44 -04:00
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@ -281,12 +281,12 @@ class Header:
75-character length limit on any given encoded header field, so
line-wrapping must be performed, even with double-byte character sets.
This method will do its best to convert the string to the correct
character set used in email, and encode and line wrap it safely with
the appropriate scheme for that character set.
If the given charset is not known or an error occurs during
conversion, this function will return the header untouched.
Optional maxlinelen specifies the maxiumum length of each generated
line, exclusive of the linesep string. Individual lines may be longer
than maxlinelen if a folding point cannot be found. The first line
will be shorter by the length of the header name plus ": " if a header
name was specified at Header construction time. The default value for
maxlinelen is determined at header construction time.
Optional splitchars is a string containing characters to split long
ASCII lines on, in rough support of RFC 2822's `highest level