From 308f14aeaeab3b8c186c666c5783c657841f8577 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:00:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add maxlinelen to docstring, delete obsolete wording --- Lib/email/header.py | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Lib/email/header.py b/Lib/email/header.py index a7963ac25cd..e78547c1e1a 100644 --- a/Lib/email/header.py +++ b/Lib/email/header.py @@ -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