On 9/7/2010 11:37 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:34:49 +0400, Oleg Broytman <p...@phd.pp.ru> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:02:59PM -0000, exar...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: >>> On 01:33 pm, p...@phd.pp.ru wrote: >>>> As there is already Python 3.2 alpha, the core of Python has already >>>> been ported >>> >>> How about the email package? >> >> What about email? It is a core library, right? It has been ported AFAIK. >> Or have I missed something? > > Some bug reports, perhaps? > > Email has been "ported" in the sense that all the existing tests pass > under py3k. It is not, however, fully functional: it cannot handle > input that contains binary data with the high bit set. (To put it another > way, the python3 email package currently handles only 7bit clean data.) > This has various unfortunate consequences for other standard library > packages (cgi, nntp, etc) that depend directly or indirectly on the > email package. > > To fix this the email package API and a chunk of the internals needs > to be redesigned so that it can handle bytes while still providing a > string-based interface to the textual data. This is no small task, > since email in python2 has been getting away with all kinds of dirty > tricks because of the lack of a clean bytes/string separation in python2. > > See http://launchpad.net/python-email6 for current status of the project. > > Prashant Kumar, if you would like to help with the email6 project, please > sign up to the email-sig mailing list and introduce yourself there. > All help is welcome! It is not a "porting" project strictly > speaking, but it certainly is interesting :) > And if anyone knows people who would help with *funding* this effort the PSF very much wants to talk to them. This ought logically to include everyone using "Mailman". I would imagine if we had $10 from 1% of its users we would be able to fund the effort comfortably.
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