From 067a2acdf69d11893e0164ebeac8436c67464b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 17:30:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention seekable parameter (AMK). Added pointer to mailbox module. --- Doc/lib/librfc822.tex | 9 +++++++-- Doc/librfc822.tex | 9 +++++++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex index 9b2094feb9f..3617e8aa655 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/librfc822.tex @@ -8,9 +8,14 @@ collection of ``email headers'' as defined by the Internet standard RFC 822. It is used in various contexts, usually to read such headers from a file. +(Note that there's a separate, currently undocumented, module to read +Unix style mailbox files: \code{mailbox}.) + A \code{Message} instance is instantiated with an open file object as -parameter. Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank -line and stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is +parameter. The optional \code{seekable} parameter indicates if the +file object is seekable; the default value is 1 for true. +Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank line and +stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is positioned directly after the blank line that terminates the headers. Input lines as read from the file may either be terminated by CR-LF or diff --git a/Doc/librfc822.tex b/Doc/librfc822.tex index 9b2094feb9f..3617e8aa655 100644 --- a/Doc/librfc822.tex +++ b/Doc/librfc822.tex @@ -8,9 +8,14 @@ collection of ``email headers'' as defined by the Internet standard RFC 822. It is used in various contexts, usually to read such headers from a file. +(Note that there's a separate, currently undocumented, module to read +Unix style mailbox files: \code{mailbox}.) + A \code{Message} instance is instantiated with an open file object as -parameter. Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank -line and stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is +parameter. The optional \code{seekable} parameter indicates if the +file object is seekable; the default value is 1 for true. +Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank line and +stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is positioned directly after the blank line that terminates the headers. Input lines as read from the file may either be terminated by CR-LF or