Function make_header

Lib/email/header.py:159–181

Create a Header from a sequence of pairs as returned by decode_header() decode_header() takes a header value string and returns a sequence of pairs of the format (decoded_string, charset) where charset is the string name of the character set. This function takes one of those sequen

(decoded_seq, maxlinelen=None, header_name=None,
                continuation_ws=' ')

def make_header(decoded_seq, maxlinelen=None, header_name=None,
                continuation_ws=' '):
    """Create a Header from a sequence of pairs as returned by decode_header()

    decode_header() takes a header value string and returns a sequence of
    pairs of the format (decoded_string, charset) where charset is the string
    name of the character set.

    This function takes one of those sequence of pairs and returns a Header
    instance.  Optional maxlinelen, header_name, and continuation_ws are as in
    the Header constructor.

    This function exists for backwards compatibility only, and is not
    recommended for use in new code.
    """
    h = Header(maxlinelen=maxlinelen, header_name=header_name,
               continuation_ws=continuation_ws)
    for s, charset in decoded_seq:
        # None means us-ascii but we can simply pass it on to h.append()
        if charset is not None and not isinstance(charset, Charset):
            charset = Charset(charset)
        h.append(s, charset)
    return h


class Header: