[Python-3000] Status of the email package ? (or: email package and unicode)

[Barry Warsaw]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Nov 12, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:

> poplib, imaplib and nntplib are fixed in Python 3.0rc2, cool.
>
> I tested the smtplib module. It looks like <smtp object>.sendmail()  
> requires
> an ASCII message (7 bits).
>
> I tried to use the email package to encode my message. But the  
> problem is that
> I'm unable to use characters different not in the ASCII charset! See  
> the
> reported bugs at:
>   http://bugs.python.org/issue4306
>
> Before the Python 3.0 final, we have to test the email package with  
> unicode
> characters! I wrote two small patches, one includes at little test :-)

Please make this a release blocker and I will look at it this weekend.

- -Barry

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)

iQCVAwUBSRricnEjvBPtnXfVAQJ4EwQAlkCiDyHrF2Epo4aYqsAxJhyR2J0/rfP3
i9ptOEXk75AGJ4LP4wGNSkAce8ljxe7myfUpvky9dFbAybHr4ZoRwooAIVBJ0OS8
VOk++4dbDO/PSA+Yz8hYgQAfFU2UbOwD47XAaMs6WU7IMY3r+g6QyPTTnulA+EKo
lz3xCpSivj8=
=4Emh
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----