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gh-67022: Document bytes/str inconsistency in email.header.decode_header() and suggest email.headerregistry.HeaderRegistry as a sane alternative (#92900)
* gh-67022: Document bytes/str inconsistency in email.header.decode_header()

This function's possible return types have been surprising and error-prone
for the entirety of its Python 3.x history. It can return either:

1. `typing.List[typing.Tuple[bytes, typing.Optional[str]]]` of length >1
2. or `typing.List[typing.Tuple[str, None]]`, of length exactly 1

This means that any user of this function must be prepared to accept either
`bytes` or `str` for the first member of the 2-tuples it returns, which is a
very surprising behavior in Python 3.x, particularly given that the second
member of the tuple is supposed to represent the charset/encoding of the
first member.

This patch documents the behavior of this function, and adds test cases
to demonstrate it.

As discussed in bpo-22833, this cannot be changed in a backwards-compatible
way, and some users of this function depend precisely on the existing
behavior.

Add warnings about obsolescence of 'email.header.decode_header' and 'email.header.make_header' functions.

Recommend use of `email.headerregistry.HeaderRegistry` instead, as suggested
in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/92900#discussion_r1112472177
2025-06-15 15:29:38 -04:00
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mime gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
__init__.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
_encoded_words.py bpo-43323: Fix UnicodeEncodeError in the email module (GH-32137) 2022-04-30 13:17:23 +03:00
_header_value_parser.py gh-134155: fix AttributeError in email._header_value_parser.get_address (#134194) 2025-06-05 13:28:11 -04:00
_parseaddr.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
_policybase.py gh-127794: Validate email header names according to RFC 5322 (#127820) 2025-03-30 12:29:29 +00:00
architecture.rst Fix typos in multiple .rst files (#1668) 2017-05-19 23:37:57 +03:00
base64mime.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
charset.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
contentmanager.py bpo-46565: del loop vars that are leaking into module namespaces (GH-30993) 2022-02-03 11:20:08 +02:00
encoders.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
errors.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
feedparser.py gh-133306: Use \z instead of \Z in regular expressions in the stdlib (GH-133337) 2025-05-03 17:58:49 +03:00
generator.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
header.py gh-67022: Document bytes/str inconsistency in email.header.decode_header() and suggest email.headerregistry.HeaderRegistry as a sane alternative (#92900) 2025-06-15 15:29:38 -04:00
headerregistry.py bpo-26579: Add object.__getstate__(). (GH-2821) 2022-04-06 20:00:14 +03:00
iterators.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
message.py Docs: fix docstring of email.message.Message.add_header (#134355) 2025-06-10 12:35:37 +02:00
parser.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
policy.py gh-127794: Validate email header names according to RFC 5322 (#127820) 2025-03-30 12:29:29 +00:00
quoprimime.py gh-126133: Only use start year in PSF copyright, remove end years (#126236) 2024-11-12 15:59:19 +02:00
utils.py gh-134151 Fix TypeError in email.utils.decode_params when sorting RFC 2231 continuations (#134687) 2025-06-08 09:13:21 +02:00