[Python-3000] current status

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:00 AM, Neal Norwitz wrote:

> Some of the failures in test_mailbox and test_old_mailbox are the
> same, but I think test_mailbox might have more problems.

It does, and I won't be spending any more time before a1 looking at  
it.  The problem is that MH.__setitem__() opens its file in binary  
mode, then passes a string to the base class's _dump_message()  
method.  It then tries to write a string to a binary file and you get  
a TypeError.  You can't just encode strings to bytes in _dump_message 
() though because sometimes the file you're passed is a text file and  
so you trade one failure for another.

I don't think it's quite right to do the conversion in MH.__setitem__ 
() either though because _dump_message() isn't prepared to handle  
bytes.  Maybe it should be, but the basic problem is that you can get  
passed either a text or binary file object and you need to be able to  
write either strings or bytes to either.

- -Barry

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