[issue6521] Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText

R. David Murray added the comment: This is not quite a duplicate of issue 1368247, but in the patch for that issue the doc changes should clarify the ambiguity. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed type: -> behavior

[issue6521] Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText

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[issue6521] Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText

Shashwat Anand added the comment: UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-7: ordinal not in range(128) The lack of unicode encoding support should be mentioned explicitly. Attaching a doc patch. -- keywords: +patch nosy: +l0nwlf, r.david.murray Added fi

[issue6521] Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText

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[issue6521] Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Apparently it doesn't: >>> message = MIMEText(u"héhé", _charset="utf-8") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/email/mime/text.py", line 30, in __init__ self.set_payload(_text, _charset) File "/usr/lib64/py

[issue6521] Contradictory documentation for email.mime.text.MIMEText

New submission from Antoine Pitrou : It is not obvious whether encoding of an unicode argument will happen or not: « [...] No guessing or encoding is performed on the text data. Changed in version 2.4: The previously deprecated _encoding argument has been removed. Encoding happens implicitly ba