Commit ce227e35 authored by Raymond Hettinger's avatar Raymond Hettinger

Clarify the status of get_string() and recommend using the binary API.

parent d163c2c5
......@@ -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`.)
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