[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Oct 12 22:45:09 CEST 2009


On Oct 10, 2009, at 5:20 PM, R. David Murray wrote:

> The other is a Glossary[2].  I think most of it accurately reflects  
> the
> consensus here, but in it I'm proposing to use the term 'transfer- 
> decoded'
> for #3, and 'transfer-encoded' as an alternative to 'wire-format' just
> for symmetry.  Comments and suggestions welcome.

wire-format is potentially misleading because the RFCs define line- 
endings as CRLF, but we accept system native line-endings, and  
sometimes output them too.

ready-for-another-can-of-worms-yum!-ly y'rs,
-Barry

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