From fca1f2cadf34ba75469f2e18fd9568ec80545a6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cheryl Sabella Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 16:18:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-15115: Document deprecation of email.encoders in Python 3 (GH-5354) (cherry picked from commit a747c3a5edf21fa5670bc30f5e1d804de89ebf62) Co-authored-by: Cheryl Sabella --- Doc/library/email.encoders.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst index e24ac7b90d29f8..debd1c85d490a0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst +++ b/Doc/library/email.encoders.rst @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ This module is part of the legacy (``Compat32``) email API. In the new API the functionality is provided by the *cte* parameter of the :meth:`~email.message.EmailMessage.set_content` method. +This module is deprecated in Python 3. The functions provided here +should not be called explicitly since the :class:`~email.mime.text.MIMEText` +class sets the content type and CTE header using the *_subtype* and *_charset* +values passed during the instaniation of that class. + The remaining text in this section is the original documentation of the module. When creating :class:`~email.message.Message` objects from scratch, you often