[Email-SIG] Hello

[Tony Nelson]

At 16:41 -0500 2009/03/30, Barry Warsaw wrote:
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>On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Tony Nelson wrote:
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>>I'm Tony Nelson. ...
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>Hi Tony, welcome to the email sig!

Thank you.

>I'm actually sprinting on the
>email package today at Pycon.  Chris Withers joined me until he had to
>fly home.  Bug 1974 was Chris's particular itch and I now think I have
>a fix for this that isn't horrible, though unfortunately it will only
>land in 2.7 and shouldn't be back ported.

A worthy issue.  Hopefully header parsing and generation can be cleaned up
more befre 2.7/3.1 so that proper RFC2822 2.2.3 folding can be the norm.
For example, unstructured header fields such as Subject: have whitespace as
part of the unstructured token, and structured fields can skip whitespace,
so leading whitespace should not be stripped by
FeedParser._parse_headers().  This would help with idempotency.


>>Currently I've filed "[issue5610] email feedparser.py CRLFLF bug: $ vs
>>\Z". ...
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>> I might be persuaded to review or fix other open issues.
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>Very cool, thanks.  I'll look at the above issues after I land the
>patch for 1974.

Ack.  Only one issue yet [issue5610]; I want to know if I'm doing it right
before filing others.


>My plan for the email package is:
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>* Fix what we can for Python 2.7 but be very conservative with back
>ports to 2.6
>* Ignore 3.0
>* Work on a new API so that we can actually fix the horrible
>brokenness of email in Python 3.

Hmm, I haven't used Python 3 yet, and didn't know about that.  I suppose it
is due to bytes/unicode confusion?

There should be an "obvious" place for users to get a current email package
suitable for at least the last few Python 2.x, at least if it starts
getting more love again.  I don't know quite where that should be, whether
a SourceForge (or similar) page, a listing on PyPI, both, or what.  Just
something simpler than a SVN checkout.
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