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Describe the new Header.encode() argument "splitchars".

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Barry Warsaw 2003-03-06 06:06:54 +00:00
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@ -109,10 +109,13 @@ Optional \var{errors} is passed through to any \function{unicode()} or
\function{ustr.encode()} call, and defaults to ``strict''.
\end{methoddesc}
\begin{methoddesc}[Header]{encode}{}
\begin{methoddesc}[Header]{encode}{\optional{splitchars}}
Encode a message header into an RFC-compliant format, possibly
wrapping long lines and encapsulating non-\ASCII{} parts in base64 or
quoted-printable encodings.
quoted-printable encodings. Optional \var{splitchars} is a string
containing characters to split long ASCII lines on, in rough support
of \rfc{2822}'s \emph{highest level syntactic breaks}. This doesn't
affect \rfc{2047} encoded lines.
\end{methoddesc}
The \class{Header} class also provides a number of methods to support