On Fri, 07 May 2010 07:15:19 -0400, l...@rmi.net wrote: > --What's the current ETA on a new version of the email parser > which handles byte strings? The web suggests it might be 3.2, > 3.3, or even 3.4. It seems to still be in early stages.
My best guess at this point (it's an informed guess, but still very much a guess) is that email6 will be available in 3.3, and I am hoping there will be a pypi package available for testing it under 3.1/3.2 some time before the end of this year. > --How backward compatible will the new email be? I'm assuming > it will handle bytes but be otherwise very similar, but 3.x set > quite a precedent for changes, and changes break books. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news from your point of view, but there are indeed likely to be a number of fairly significant changes. The plan is to provide a backward compatibility layer, but that probably doesn't help you much since you'd presumably rather discuss the "official" API. > Any updates on this would be appreciated; for better or worse, > email is a major dependency for one of the flagship Python books > out there. Since postponing the update probably isn't an option, > I'm leaning towards decoding per a user-configurable default > (latin1 or utf8?) for now, but that's less than ideal. Email is a major dependency for a number of things, and IMO is perhaps the biggest thing blocking Python3 adoption that the Python development community has any control over. Unfortunately there is currently a distinct lack of volunteer time to work on it. Several of us are working on ways to support and speed up email6 development. There is a GSoC student who will be doing some work, with me as mentor, and I am hoping to get funding to be able to spend a significant number of hours on the package on a contract-programming basis as well. There are structures the PSF needs to put in place before I can do fundraising for that, however. If you know anyone who might want to just pay me for it straight out, let me know :) As for what you do *now*...unfortunately I don't know of any answer that works, otherwise we'd have implemented it. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
