[issue20747] Charset.header_encode in email.charset doesn't take a maxlinelen argument and has inconsistent behavior with different encodings

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

I've no clue, to tell you the truth.  Those APIs evolved long before I took over email package maintenance.  And since we are talking about 2.7,  we can't change the existing API.  In Python3, Charset.header_encode will as of 3.5 become a legacy interface, so there's not much point in changing it there either, although it is not out of the question if there is a use case.

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