When mentioning the constants contained in the module email.charset, the documentation prefixes them with "Charset", for example: Charset.QP, Charset.BASE64, Charset.SHORTEST. This suggests that the constants can be found on the class "Charset" (uppercase first letter) in the module, while they are in fact contained in the the "charset" (lowercase first letter) module itself. This is probably a left-over from when the module was called email.Charset (in 2.2 I believe). Under Python 2.7, while the documentation uses the same nomenclature, at least the module is also importable under the name email.Charset so it makes more sense.
Original poster here (OpenID just wouldn't work anymore). For instance: https://docs.python.org/2/library/email.charset.html Under "class email.charset.Charset" Under "header_encoding" "If the character set must be encoded before it can be used in an email header, this attribute will be set to Charset.QP (for quoted-printable), Charset.BASE64 (for base64 encoding), or Charset.SHORTEST for the shortest of QP or BASE64 encoding. Otherwise, it will be None."
Ah, I see. Yes, those strings are actually hardcoded in the documentation source instead of being references. You are correct, they should be fixed. Note, however, that Charset is part of the legacy API and isn't actually used if you use the new API in python3.
