semantics of header chunks using byte and Unicode strings.
Specifically,
append(): When the given string is a byte string, charset (whether
specified explicitly in the argument list or implicitly via the
constructor default) is the encoding of the byte string, and a
UnicodeError will be raised if the string cannot be decoded with that
charset. If s is a Unicode string, then charset is a hint specifying
the character set of the characters in the string. In this case, when
producing an RFC 2822 compliant header using RFC 2047 rules, the
Unicode string will be encoded using the following charsets in order:
us-ascii, the charset hint, utf-8.
__init__(): Use the global USASCII Charset instance when the charset
argument is None. Also, clarification in the docstring.
Also, use True/False where appropriate.
Python 2.1.3. However it's required by the email tests suite, so poke
it into the encodings aliases if it's missing. The is apparently the
approved API for doing so.
Now we can remove the hexversion shortcircuits in the test suite.
encoding flag SHORTEST means to return the shortest encoding between
base64 and qp. This is used for the header_enc for utf-8. SHORTEST
isn't legal for body_enc.
Also some code cleanup:
- use True/False everywhere
- use == instead of `is' in a few places
- added _unicode() and make consistent the "is unicode" checks
- update docstrings
project, and with assistance from Oleg Broytmann. Specifically,
added some new tests to make sure we handle RFC 2231 encoded
parameters correctly. Two new data files were added which contain RFC
2231 encoded parameters.
project, and with assistance from Oleg Broytmann. Specifically,
get_param(), get_params(): Document that these methods may return
parameter values that are either strings, or 3-tuples in the case of
RFC 2231 encoded parameters. The application should be prepared to
deal with such return values.
get_boundary(): Be prepared to deal with RFC 2231 encoded boundary
parameters. It makes little sense to have boundaries that are
anything but ascii, so if we get back a 3-tuple from get_param() we
will decode it into ascii and let any failures percolate up.
get_content_charset(): New method which treats the charset parameter
just like the boundary parameter in get_boundary(). Note that
"get_charset()" was already taken to return the default Charset
object.
get_charsets(): Rewrite to use get_content_charset().
Move the imports of Parser and Message inside the
message_from_string() and message_from_file() functions. This way
just "import email" won't suck in most of the submodules of the
package.
Note: this will break code that relied on "import email" giving you a
bunch of the submodules, but that was never documented and should not
have been relied on.
_handle_text(): Use _isstring() for stringiness test.
_handle_multipart(): Add a test before the ListType test, checking for
stringiness of the payload. String payloads for multitypes means a
message with broken MIME chrome was parsed by a lax parser. Instead
of raising a BoundaryError in those cases, the entire body is assigned
to the message payload (but since the content type is still
multipart/*, the Generator needs to be updated too).
Broytmann in SF patch #600096. Specifically, the former function now
encodes the triplets, while the latter adds optional charset and
language arguments.
Barry Warsaw
Tim Peters