On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:34:26 am R. David Murray wrote: > Perhaps another difference is that in my mind *as an application > developer*, the "real" email message consists of unicode headers and > message bodies, with attachments that are sometimes binary, and that > the wire-format is this formalized encoding we have to use to be able > to send it from place to place. In that mental model it seems to > make perfect sense to have a StringMessage that I have encode to > transmit, and a BytesMessage that I receive and have to decode to > work with.
+1 -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ 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
