[doc] email.header.Header.unicode does not decode header

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#61,707 opened on Mar 21, 2013 12 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 25/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: python
Domain: documentation

Research direction

Start with email.header.Header.unicode and review the existing discussion and PR #31765, which already addresses this issue. Confirm the intended header-decoding behavior and verify that the resulting implementation and tests reflect it.

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Description

3.10 3.11 3.9 (EOL) docs easy topic-email

BPO	17505
Nosy	@warsaw, @hniksic, @bitdancer, @JelleZijlstra, @Vidhyavinu
PRs	python/cpython#31765

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assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2013-03-21.07:46:53.605>
labels = ['easy', 'type-bug', 'expert-email', '3.10', '3.11', '3.9', 'docs']
title = '[doc] email.header.Header.__unicode__ does not decode header'
updated_at = <Date 2022-03-08.15:23:43.125>
user = 'https://github.com/hniksic'

bugs.python.org fields:

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assignee = 'docs@python'
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nosy_count = 6.0
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pr_nums = ['31765']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'patch review'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue17505'
versions = ['Python 3.9', 'Python 3.10', 'Python 3.11']

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