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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 26d65394cc..05d8d21d5a 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -2169,8 +2169,13 @@ the file to text-mode). There is also a new :meth:`~mailbox.Mailbox.get_bytes` method that returns a :class:`bytes` representation of a message corresponding to a given *key*. -(Contributed by R. David Murray with efforts from Steffen Daode Nurpmeso and -Victor Stinner in :issue:`9124`.) +It is still possible to get non-binary output using the old API's +:meth:`~mailbox.Mailbox.get_string` method, but that approach +is not very useful. Instead, it is best to extract messages from +a :class:`~mailbox.Message` object or to load them from binary input. + +(Contributed by R. David Murray, with efforts from Steffen Daode Nurpmeso and an +initial patch by Victor Stinner in :issue:`9124`.) turtledemo ---------- |