Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 2:14 PM Tim Roberts wrote: > ... > Ah, you youngsters who don't remember the glory days. Well, I'll be 75 in a couple of weeks, so I don't know how well I still qualify as a "youngster." It's more likely that I knew about that "feature" at one time (I used Pine on Unix to read my email for quite a few years, and I wrote a bunch of email gateways several decades back), and in my scramble to keep up with the actual "youngsters" my brain pushes out to the bin the things it decides it doesn't need any more (your description does ring a bell). As time goes on, the ratio of what I once knew but have forgotten to what I still remember changes faster than I'd like. ⏳ Your memory, on the other hand, seems to be doing just fine. Cheers, Bob ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle
On 1/7/23 7:11 AM, Bob Kline wrote: As a very minor side note, just so you know, it looks like there's a bug in the mailing list software. I went back to the original of my previous post, and the ">" character which appears at the beginning of the paragraph beginning "From what I can tell ..." was not in the message that I sent, but was added by the mailing list, making it look as if that paragraph might have been part of the quoted message to which I was replying, instead of what it actually was (part of my own reply). Ah, you youngsters who don't remember the glory days. That's not a bug, it's a feature. In the early days, mail messages were stored in a standard format called "mbox". This was a simple, plain text format that just had the text of every message. The separator between messages was a line that read "From Sat Jan 07 11:14:59 2023". So, any line in a message that started with the word "From" needed to be escaped to prevent it from being read as a separator. The traditional escapement was to change it to "> From". -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
Re: [python-win32] Object type puzzle
As a very minor side note, just so you know, it looks like there's a bug in the mailing list software. I went back to the original of my previous post, and the ">" character which appears at the beginning of the paragraph beginning "From what I can tell ..." was not in the message that I sent, but was added by the mailing list, making it look as if that paragraph might have been part of the quoted message to which I was replying, instead of what it actually was (part of my own reply). Cheers, Bob ___ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
