[Twisted-Python] "local" semantics sought in twisted.protocols.smtp.sendmail
Jp Calderone
exarkun at divmod.com
Tue Jul 27 13:15:31 MDT 2004
Sergio Trejo wrote:
> The API documentation for twisted.protocols.smtp.sendmail method states
> that the incoming msg parameter ((a string or a file object) must
> contain contain lines
> that end with a line feed character because, verbatim: "Line endings
> must be
> local (I.e., '\n')" ... the URL that I'm quoting from is
> http://www.twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/
> twisted.protocols.smtp.html#sendmail
>
> I am curious what is meant by the word "local" to describe the use of
> line endings in the API documentation. Does local mean something
> specific to an operating system of which the Python interpreter is
> compiled for and runs on top of (and if so, doesn't that break the
> philosophy of Python which is mostly OS agnostic)?
>
The documentation is wrong. Use \n to delimit newlines. I'll go fix
the docs in SVN. Thanks for pointing this out.
Jp
> Sergio
>
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