Issue 1629566: documentation of email.utils.parsedate is confusing (original) (raw)

This sentence in the documentation for email.utils.parsedate confused me:

"Note that fields 6, 7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable."

These indices are zero-based, so it's actually fields 7, 8 and 9 that they are talking about (in normal English). Either this should be changed to 7-9 or be re-expressed in a way that makes it clear it's zero-based, for example by using Python indexing notation.

Thanks.