https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/04f99ba9d7186278eaf072e9a62c03aa63a... commit: 04f99ba9d7186278eaf072e9a62c03aa63a8a6bb branch: 3.6 author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> committer: Mariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com> date: 2018-01-29T20:16:21-08:00 summary: bpo-32701: Clarify the quotetabs flag in quopri documentation (GH-5401) (GH-5438) (cherry picked from commit 9424dcbb3e20a26dfdd81659303b989f7d3da044) Co-authored-by: Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr> files: M Doc/library/quopri.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/quopri.rst b/Doc/library/quopri.rst index a3f94a0ad066..86717c00c3c1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/quopri.rst +++ b/Doc/library/quopri.rst @@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ sending a graphics file. Encode the contents of the *input* file and write the resulting quoted-printable data to the *output* file. *input* and *output* must be - :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a flag which controls - whether to encode embedded spaces and tabs must be provideda and when true it - encodes such embedded whitespace, and when false it leaves them unencoded. + :term:`binary file objects <file object>`. *quotetabs*, a + non-optional flag which controls whether to encode embedded spaces + and tabs; when true it encodes such embedded whitespace, and when + false it leaves them unencoded. Note that spaces and tabs appearing at the end of lines are always encoded, as per :rfc:`1521`. *header* is a flag which controls if spaces are encoded as underscores as per :rfc:`1522`.