Commit 067a2acd authored by Guido van Rossum's avatar Guido van Rossum

Mention seekable parameter (AMK).

Added pointer to mailbox module.
parent bac80022
......@@ -8,9 +8,14 @@ collection of ``email headers'' as defined by the Internet standard
RFC 822. It is used in various contexts, usually to read such headers
from a file.
(Note that there's a separate, currently undocumented, module to read
Unix style mailbox files: \code{mailbox}.)
A \code{Message} instance is instantiated with an open file object as
parameter. Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank
line and stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is
parameter. The optional \code{seekable} parameter indicates if the
file object is seekable; the default value is 1 for true.
Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank line and
stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is
positioned directly after the blank line that terminates the headers.
Input lines as read from the file may either be terminated by CR-LF or
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......@@ -8,9 +8,14 @@ collection of ``email headers'' as defined by the Internet standard
RFC 822. It is used in various contexts, usually to read such headers
from a file.
(Note that there's a separate, currently undocumented, module to read
Unix style mailbox files: \code{mailbox}.)
A \code{Message} instance is instantiated with an open file object as
parameter. Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank
line and stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is
parameter. The optional \code{seekable} parameter indicates if the
file object is seekable; the default value is 1 for true.
Instantiation reads headers from the file up to a blank line and
stores them in the instance; after instantiation, the file is
positioned directly after the blank line that terminates the headers.
Input lines as read from the file may either be terminated by CR-LF or
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