Re: [Python-ideas] New imaplib implementation for Python 3.2+ standard library

On 7/25/2011 3:42 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:

That's not something you'd have to worry about anyway - new features, modules, and packages would only be accepted in the next 3.x release (3.3).

And should be written in Py 3 style. In particular, long sequences should generally be returned as iterables rather than as lists. If I understood the proposal, fetch does that, where as old imaplib waited to create a finished list. -- Terry Jan Reedy