From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:40:23 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Message.getheaders():  If there are no matching headers, return an
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a1~1226
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cbfa5cbcc84af09d00bd013a6a896c7c864d8ee1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Message.getheaders():  If there are no matching headers, return an
		       empty list instead of None.  (Guido's request.)
---

diff --git a/Lib/rfc822.py b/Lib/rfc822.py
index ef5a8512f06c..96a02d1c2b7a 100644
--- a/Lib/rfc822.py
+++ b/Lib/rfc822.py
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ class Message:
 
         This returns a list of values for headers given more than once;
         each value in the result list is stripped in the same way as the
-        result of getheader().  If the header is not given, return None.
+        result of getheader().  If the header is not given, return an
+        empty list.
         """
         result = []
         current = ''
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ class Message:
                 have_header = 1
         if have_header:
             result.append(current)
-        return result or None
+        return result
     
     def getaddr(self, name):
         """Get a single address from a header, as a tuple.