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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/smtplib.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | Lib/smtplib.py | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst index 805217252ae..6fb0934218a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/smtplib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/smtplib.rst @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ An :class:`SMTP` instance has the following methods: If optional keyword argument *initial_response_ok* is true, ``authobject()`` will be called first with no argument. It can return the - :rfc:`4954` "initial response" bytes which will be encoded and sent with + :rfc:`4954` "initial response" ASCII ``str`` which will be encoded and sent with the ``AUTH`` command as below. If the ``authobject()`` does not support an initial response (e.g. because it requires a challenge), it should return ``None`` when called with ``challenge=None``. If *initial_response_ok* is @@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ An :class:`SMTP` instance has the following methods: If the initial response check returns ``None``, or if *initial_response_ok* is false, ``authobject()`` will be called to process the server's challenge response; the *challenge* argument it is passed will be a ``bytes``. It - should return ``bytes`` *data* that will be base64 encoded and sent to the + should return ASCII ``str`` *data* that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server. The ``SMTP`` class provides ``authobjects`` for the ``CRAM-MD5``, ``PLAIN``, diff --git a/Lib/smtplib.py b/Lib/smtplib.py index 048c6bfb067..5e1bc0b198e 100755 --- a/Lib/smtplib.py +++ b/Lib/smtplib.py @@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ class SMTP: It will be called to process the server's challenge response; the challenge argument it is passed will be a bytes. It should return - bytes data that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server. + an ASCII string that will be base64 encoded and sent to the server. Keyword arguments: - initial_response_ok: Allow sending the RFC 4954 initial-response |