On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:25 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:55:50 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> > >> > For the record, the code is pretty much done now: >> > http://bugs.python.org/issue9360 >> >> Generally looks pretty reasonable. As I noted on the issue, my one >> concern is that the current API seems to rely on the programmer >> remembering which methods return strings and which return bytes >> without any consistent mnemonic as to which is which. > > The mnemonic is: *raw message data* is bytes, everything else is unicode. > That is, the *content* of head, body, article, post, and ihave commands > is bytes, otherwise you are dealing with strings. I think it is a > very clear and obvious distinction, myself.
Yeah, after Antoine's response, I was happy that was a problem with my understanding of the API, rather than the API itself. 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
