On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:34:33 +0530, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:44:30PM +0200, Baptiste Carvello wrote: > > > Antoine> Like the email package, nntplib in py3k is broken (because of > > > Antoine> various bytes/str mismatches; I suppose the lack of a test > > > Antoine> suite didn't help when porting). > > > > > >How heavily used is nntp these days (unless you're looking for spam)? > > >Would > > >it make more sense to find someone willing to maintain it outside the > > >Python > > >core and just remove it altogether? > > > > > Reading this from GMANE ;-) > > I guess, Skip's question or intention was, how often nntplib as a > module is being used these days to write scripts/tools or clients? > Very rarely. > > It would definitely be interesting to know, if there are python > applications out there which are using nntplib at the moment.
You all might find it interesting to know that I'm now maintaining email and working on email6 as a direct consequence of nntplib. I was using it to read mailing lists through gmane, and when I tried to port my nntp tool to Python3 I found that decode_header (among other things) was broken, and as a consequence of talking to Barry about that walked in to the email minefield.... I'm currently not using my nttp reader, but it is because I couldn't stand working on my client in Python2, I wanted to be using Python3. So I volunteered to help with email...but I figure I'll come back around and help Antoine with nttplib by and by :) --David _______________________________________________ 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
