Hi, I worked on poplib, imaplib and nntplib to fix them in Python3. First I tried to use unicode everywhere because I love unicode and I don't want to care about the charset. So I used a default charset (ISO-8859-1), but it doesn't work because each email can use a different charset. The charset is written in the email header but I don't want to hack the libraries to parse the headers: poplib should only support the POP3 protocol, email parsing is complex and should be done by another module (later, after fetching the email).
Current status: poplib, imaplib and nntplib are broken -- I wrote patches for poplib and imaplib to use only byte strings. I "backported" poplib tests from python trunk and I used different POP3 and IMAP servers to test the libraries. Can anyone review my patches? Issues #1210 and #3727. -- I don't know the NNTP protocol and so I'm unable to test it. But nntplib should also use byte strings only. Note: imaplib and nntplib have no test :-( -- What about smtplib or smtpd? -- Victor Stinner aka haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
