addition of interface for consistency with base64 module. Namely,
encodestring(), decodestring(): New functions which accept a string
object and return a string object. They just wrap the string in
StringIOs and pass them to the encode() and decode() methods
respectively. encodestring() accepts a default argument of quotetabs,
defaulting to zero, which is passed on straight through to encode().
encode(): Fix the bug where an extra newline would always be added to
the output, which prevented an idempotent roundtrip through
encode->decode. Now, if the source string doesn't end in a newline,
then the result string won't end in a newline.
Also, extend the quotetabs argument semantics to include quoting
embedded strings, which is also optional according to the RFC.
test() -> main()
"from quopri import *" also imports encodestring() and decodestring().
The attached patches update the standard library so that all modules
have docstrings beginning with one-line summaries.
A new docstring was added to formatter. The docstring for os.py
was updated to mention nt, os2, ce in addition to posix, dos, mac.
