From e25244657c5be459a98be06c745c35ff8a216c36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 21:33:18 -0400 Subject: #21300: Clean up the docs for the email "policy" arguments. --- Lib/email/generator.py | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Lib/email/generator.py') diff --git a/Lib/email/generator.py b/Lib/email/generator.py index 15352101b5..4735721bb0 100644 --- a/Lib/email/generator.py +++ b/Lib/email/generator.py @@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ class Generator: by RFC 2822. The policy keyword specifies a policy object that controls a number of - aspects of the generator's operation. The default policy maintains - backward compatibility. + aspects of the generator's operation. If no policy is specified, + the policy associated with the Message object passed to the + flatten method is used. """ self._fp = outfp @@ -76,7 +77,9 @@ class Generator: Note that for subobjects, no From_ line is printed. linesep specifies the characters used to indicate a new line in - the output. The default value is determined by the policy. + the output. The default value is determined by the policy specified + when the Generator instance was created or, if none was specified, + from the policy associated with the msg. """ # We use the _XXX constants for operating on data that comes directly -- cgit v1.2.1