[Email-SIG] [Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Mon Apr 13 16:14:04 CEST 2009
On Apr 10, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> If one name has to be longer than the other, it should be the bytes
> version. Real user code is more likely to want to use the text
> version, and hopefully there will be more of that type of code than
> implementations using bytes.
>
> Of course, one could use message.header and message.bythdr and
> they'd be the same length.
Actually, thinking about this over the weekend, it's much better for
message['subject'] to return a Header instance in all cases. Use
bytes(header) to get the raw bytes.
A good API for getting the parsed and decoded header values needs to
take into account that it won't always be a string. For unstructured
headers like Subject, str(header) would work just fine. For an
Originator or Destination address, what does str(header) return? And
what would be the API for getting the set of realname/addresses out of
the header?
-Barry
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