Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 16 years ago

#5615 closed (fixed)

Typo in email docs: "to" field should be a list

Reported by: raprasad@… Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: email to
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

documentation typo on:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/email/#sending-alternative-content-types

The "to" address is not a list:

-fix 1-

orig:

subject, from_email, to = 'hello', 'from@example.com', 'to@example.com'

new:

subject, from_email, to = 'hello', 'from@example.com', ['to@example.com']

--- OR ---

-fix 2-
orig:

msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, to)

new:

msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [to])

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5615.diff (605 bytes ) - added by Tom Vergote 16 years ago.

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Change History (6)

by Tom Vergote, 16 years ago

Attachment: 5615.diff added

comment:1 by Tom Vergote, 16 years ago

Has patch: set

I prefer the second fix since it is consistent with the next example


msg = EmailMessage(subject, html_content, from_email, [to])
msg.content_subtype = "html" # Main content is now text/html
msg.send()


feel free to disagree

comment:2 by Matt Boersma, 16 years ago

Keywords: email to added
Summary: typo in e-mail documenation: "to" address is a string, not a listTypo in email docs: "to" field should be a list
Triage Stage: UnreviewedReady for checkin

The specific code that this ends up calling is the parent class EmailMessage.init, which does indeed expect a list as it does ','.join() on it soon afterward. I prefer the second fix as you have in your patch, too.

comment:3 by raprasad@…, 16 years ago

Agreed.

tvrg's patch looks good

comment:4 by James Bennett, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [6431]) Fixed #5615: Corrected a typo in docs/email.txt. Thanks, raprasad@….

comment:5 by anonymous, 16 years ago

cool

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