Merge p3yk branch with the trunk up to revision 45595. This breaks a fair
number of tests, all because of the codecs/_multibytecodecs issue described
here (it's not a Py3K issue, just something Py3K discovers):
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/064051.html

Hye-Shik Chang promised to look for a fix, so no need to fix it here. The
tests that are expected to break are:

test_codecencodings_cn
test_codecencodings_hk
test_codecencodings_jp
test_codecencodings_kr
test_codecencodings_tw
test_codecs
test_multibytecodec

This merge fixes an actual test failure (test_weakref) in this branch,
though, so I believe merging is the right thing to do anyway.
diff --git a/Lib/email/mime/text.py b/Lib/email/mime/text.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5747db5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/email/mime/text.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Python Software Foundation
+# Author: Barry Warsaw
+# Contact: email-sig@python.org
+
+"""Class representing text/* type MIME documents."""
+
+__all__ = ['MIMEText']
+
+from email.encoders import encode_7or8bit
+from email.mime.nonmultipart import MIMENonMultipart
+
+
+
+class MIMEText(MIMENonMultipart):
+    """Class for generating text/* type MIME documents."""
+
+    def __init__(self, _text, _subtype='plain', _charset='us-ascii'):
+        """Create a text/* type MIME document.
+
+        _text is the string for this message object.
+
+        _subtype is the MIME sub content type, defaulting to "plain".
+
+        _charset is the character set parameter added to the Content-Type
+        header.  This defaults to "us-ascii".  Note that as a side-effect, the
+        Content-Transfer-Encoding header will also be set.
+        """
+        MIMENonMultipart.__init__(self, 'text', _subtype,
+                                  **{'charset': _charset})
+        self.set_payload(_text, _charset)