Nov. 17, 2016
7:15 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 07:56:52PM +1100, Amber "Hawkie" Brown wrote:
- Python 3 support for Words' IRC support and twisted.protocols.sip among some smaller modules,
I have opened a PR to revert this: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/593 A full explanation is here: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/6320#comment:16 In summary: a valid IRC message will cause a UnicodeDecodeError within the event loop that a user cannot handle or avoid, and all length checks on line sizes are wrong because they occur prior to encoding to utf-8.