You have succeeded in confusing me to the point I don't know whether my own proposed patch is useful anymore.
It would seem to mean a change in philosophy, from "just implement the standards closely" to "give the application developer what he needs". But this goal would only be accomplished with many alterations to the codebase. So if this is true: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > 1) Why does not it currently return the *decoded* header? > > Because Message is an implementation of RFC 2822, which says nothing > about decoding headers. It is very helpful to model your programs > directly on the standards the claim to conform to. > I cannot see any documentation stating that the way of this project is to have each class implement one RFC. If there *were* a writeup on this somewhere, maybe I wouldn't have annoyed you with so many questions and absurd propositions. But why would you lie to me? So it must be true... Then I don't agree with my own patch anymore. Anyway, the necessity of a high-level interface remains and nobody has answered my question: whither? Nando Florestan =============== [skype] nandoflorestan [phone] + 55 (11) 3675-3038 [mobile] + 55 (11) 9820-5451 [internet] http://oui.com.br/ [À Capela] http://acapela.com.br/ [location] São Paulo - SP - Brasil _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
