> That sometimes you want the raw content as it was in the file? That if > you have that choice (decoded or raw) the default should be False, as it > does less?
Yeah, thinking back later, the round-trip possibility seemed plausible. I'll stop overthinking this now... > That we my _first_ instinct - I've never used get_payload(), myself, and > I've written my own complete mailfiler :-) I'm only trying to display email through a web browser, possibly with a link to the raw message. > Really, if a function isn't doing what you want you should always read > the docs for that function specificly, even if you don't want to read > the entire module docs (which is a big ask). Yeah, my mental model was simply off. I frequently pull up docs in my browser. I was thinking the message contents would be normalized when reading. It didn't occur to me the transformation would occur on the way out. I think another way I might have saved myself was if I was using a modern IDE where I might have gotten some hints hovering over the method call. But, I'm an End user. I'm sure there is some add-on package I could install, but I haven't looked. Skip -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
