[Python-checkins] bpo-38421: Update email.utils documentation (GH-16678)

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https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a12255d8def0c82560545e66c1be981a447751c3
commit: a12255d8def0c82560545e66c1be981a447751c3
branch: master
author: David K <dave at paddez.com>
committer: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2019-11-12T04:38:46-08:00
summary:

bpo-38421: Update email.utils documentation (GH-16678)



Updates documentation around email.utils.parsedate_tz().

Currently, the documentation specifies that when a string without a is timezone passed to parsedate_tz(), the last tuple is returned as ```None```.

This is no longer true since Python 3.3


https://bugs.python.org/issue38421

files:
M Doc/library/email.utils.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/email.utils.rst b/Doc/library/email.utils.rst
index 63fae2ab84e21..4d0e920eb0ad2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/email.utils.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.utils.rst
@@ -117,8 +117,8 @@ of the new API.
    a 10-tuple; the first 9 elements make up a tuple that can be passed directly to
    :func:`time.mktime`, and the tenth is the offset of the date's timezone from UTC
    (which is the official term for Greenwich Mean Time) [#]_.  If the input string
-   has no timezone, the last element of the tuple returned is ``None``.  Note that
-   indexes 6, 7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable.
+   has no timezone, the last element of the tuple returned is ``0``, which represents
+   UTC. Note that indexes 6, 7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable.
 
 
 .. function:: parsedate_to_datetime(date)



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