Commit ab1dfd68 authored by R David Murray's avatar R David Murray

Merge #11555 as_string doc fix from 3.2.

parents 3796befe 4a0b60c5
......@@ -46,15 +46,16 @@ Here are the methods of the :class:`Message` class:
be generated or modified).
Note that this method is provided as a convenience and may not always
format the message the way you want. For example, by default it mangles
lines that begin with ``From``. For more flexibility, instantiate a
format the message the way you want. For example, by default it does
not do the mangling of lines that begin with ``From`` that is
required by the unix mbox format. For more flexibility, instantiate a
:class:`~email.generator.Generator` instance and use its :meth:`flatten`
method directly. For example::
from io import StringIO
from email.generator import Generator
fp = StringIO()
g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_=False, maxheaderlen=60)
g = Generator(fp, mangle_from_=True, maxheaderlen=60)
g.flatten(msg)
text = fp.getvalue()
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......@@ -157,8 +157,7 @@ class Message:
header.
This is a convenience method and may not generate the message exactly
as you intend because by default it mangles lines that begin with
"From ". For more flexibility, use the flatten() method of a
as you intend. For more flexibility, use the flatten() method of a
Generator instance.
"""
from email.generator import Generator
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