On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > Like the email package, nntplib in py3k is broken (because of > various bytes/str mismatches; I suppose the lack of a test suite didn't > help when porting). > > I would like to take the opportunity to improve the API a bit; no heavy > re-architecting, but simply a bunch of changes to make it higher-level. > Is it acceptable? > > (and, yes, I would add a test suite)
This is the kind of question that's hard to answer in the abstract. In principle it sounds like a reasonable idea, but in practice, if the old API works correctly for 7-bit ASCII, it should probably remain available (even if it's nominally broken for Unicode and 8-bit ASCII). Adding a higher level API is almost certainly fine. Removing the old lower level APIs is more questionable, and will likely depend on precisely how broken they are. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
