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| author |   Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr> | 2018-01-30 04:36:06 +0100 |
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| committer |   Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-01-29 19:36:06 -0800 |
| commit | 9424dcbb3e20a26dfdd81659303b989f7d3da044 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d8b43ccef27e4597b5eb5b838a5830a3f156634 /Doc/library/quopri.rst | |
| parent | replace dynamic import with 'exec' with importlib.import_module (#5433) (diff) | |
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bpo-32701: Clarify the quotetabs flag in quopri documentation (GH-5401)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/quopri.rst b/Doc/library/quopri.rst index a3f94a0ad06..86717c00c3c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/quopri.rst +++ b/Doc/library/quopri.rst @@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ sending a graphics file. Encode the contents of the *input* file and write the resulting quoted-printable data to the *output* file. *input* and *output* must be - :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a flag which controls - whether to encode embedded spaces and tabs must be provideda and when true it - encodes such embedded whitespace, and when false it leaves them unencoded. + :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a + non-optional flag which controls whether to encode embedded spaces + and tabs; when true it encodes such embedded whitespace, and when + false it leaves them unencoded. Note that spaces and tabs appearing at the end of lines are always encoded, as per :rfc:`1521`. *header* is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded as underscores as per :rfc:`1522`. |