GeezerVison is showing github.com — gh-61707: Clarify that Header.__str__() does not decode RFC 2047 encoded words by ArtyomSimitian · Pull Request #161268 · python/cpython
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The docs for Header.__str__() say that all pieces are decoded, which suggests
that str(Header(s)) decodes RFC 2047 encoded words in s. It doesn't:
>>> from email.header import Header, decode_header, make_header
>>> str(Header('=?utf-8?q?Caf=C3=A9?='))
'=?utf-8?q?Caf=C3=A9?='
>>> str(make_header(decode_header('=?utf-8?q?Caf=C3=A9?=')))
'Café'
This adds a paragraph to the __str__() docs saying so, with an example
that points to decode_header() and make_header() for decoding raw
header strings.
An earlier PR for this issue (#31765) was closed without being merged. It
pointed readers to email.policy.default; this PR adds that pointer here too.
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