addition of interface for consistency with base64 module. Namely,
encodestring(), decodestring(): New functions which accept a string
object and return a string object. They just wrap the string in
StringIOs and pass them to the encode() and decode() methods
respectively. encodestring() accepts a default argument of quotetabs,
defaulting to zero, which is passed on straight through to encode().
encode(): Fix the bug where an extra newline would always be added to
the output, which prevented an idempotent roundtrip through
encode->decode. Now, if the source string doesn't end in a newline,
then the result string won't end in a newline.
Also, extend the quotetabs argument semantics to include quoting
embedded strings, which is also optional according to the RFC.
test() -> main()
"from quopri import *" also imports encodestring() and decodestring().
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.
A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
Guido van Rossum
Tim Peters
Martin v. Löwis
Barry Warsaw
Skip Montanaro
Fred Drake
Jeremy Hylton