At 00:13 +0900 04/18/2009, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: >R. David Murray writes: > > > put Header objects into it. I don't think the "overhead" of > > having to do > > > > message['Subject'] = Header('subject string') > >Hm. Should a Header know which header it is? Ie, should that be > > message['Subject'] = Header('subject', 'subject string') ...
How about: message['Subject'] = 'subject string' message['To'] = ('joe', 'joe...@foo.com') Since the Header does indeed know what it is, a Subject: Header could expect a string for input, and an Address header could expect an address tuple or list of them (and cope with possibly needing to coerce the addr-spec into bytes with the ASCII codec). Internally, Message.__setitem__() would look up the name, making and assigning the proper Headere subclass if missing, and pass that object the data. The Header subclass knows what type of data it expects and raises (ValueError?) if it gets something inappropriate. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com