New submission from R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>: decode_header only accepts str as input. If the input contains no encoded words, the output is str (ie: the input string) and None. If it does contain encoded words, the output is pairs of bytes plus str charset identifiers (or None). This makes it difficult to use this function to decode headers, since one has to test for the special case of str output when there are no encoded words.
I think decode_header should take bytes as input, and output (bytes. str) pairs consistently. In any case, the documentation is wrong since it says it returns strings. The example is also wrong, since the actual output is: [(b'p\xf6stal', 'iso-8859-1')] ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 89488 nosy: r.david.murray priority: normal severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: email.header.decode_header data types are inconsistent and incorrectly documented type: behavior versions: Python 3.1, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6302> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
