[Python-3000] email libraries: use byte or unicode strings?

2008-10-28 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, I worked on poplib, imaplib and nntplib to fix them in Python3. First I tried to use unicode everywhere because I love unicode and I don't want to care about the charset. So I used a default charset (ISO-8859-1), but it doesn't work because each email can use a different charset. The charse

Re: [Python-3000] email libraries: use byte or unicode strings?

2008-10-28 Thread Bill Janssen
Victor Stinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note: imaplib and nntplib have no test :-( I'm concerned about the lack of test suites for these modules. They basically go untested unless someone sets up a server, and then runs a series of unscripted ad-hoc tests against that server. Is there eithe