New submission from Adeodato Simó <d...@net.com.org.es>: Currently, email.parser/feedparser can only parse messages that come as a string, or from a file opened in text mode.
Email messages, however, can contain 8bit characters in any encoding other than the local one (yet still be valid e-mails, of course), so I think a method is needed to have the parser be able to receive bytes. At the moment, and as far as I can see, it's not possible to parse some perfectly valid messages with python 3.0. I don't think it's appropriate to ask that files be opened with the proper encoding, and then for the parser to read them. First, it is not possible to know what encoding that would be without parsing the message. And second, a message could contain parts in different encoding, and many mailboxes with random messages most certainly do. Also, message objects will need a way to return a bytes repreentation, for the reasons explained above, and particularly if one wants to write back the message without modifying it. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 77807 nosy: dato severity: normal status: open title: email.parser: impossible to read messages encoded in a different encoding versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4661> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
