bpo-15115: Document deprecation of email.encoders in Python 3 (GH-5354) · python/cpython@a747c3a (original) (raw)

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@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ This module is part of the legacy (``Compat32``) email API. In the
12 12 new API the functionality is provided by the *cte* parameter of
13 13 the :meth:`~email.message.EmailMessage.set_content` method.
14 14
15 +This module is deprecated in Python 3. The functions provided here
16 +should not be called explicitly since the :class:`~email.mime.text.MIMEText`
17 +class sets the content type and CTE header using the *_subtype* and *_charset*
18 +values passed during the instaniation of that class.
19 +
15 20 The remaining text in this section is the original documentation of the module.
16 21
17 22 When creating :class:`~email.message.Message` objects from scratch, you often