[Python-Dev] email package status in 3.X

[Jesse Noller]

On Jun 20, 2010, at 6:21 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> On 6/20/2010 4:10 PM, Jesse Noller wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:40 PM, P.J. Eby<pje at telecommunity.com>   
>> wrote:
>
>>> While reading over this thread, I'm wondering whether at least my
>>> (WSGI-related) problems in this area would be solved by the  
>>> availability of
>>> a type (say "bstr") that was simply a wrapper providing string- 
>>> like behavior
>>> over an underlying bytes, byte array, or memoryview, that would  
>>> produce
>>> objects of compatible type when combined with strings (by encoding  
>>> them to
>>> match).
>
>> I hate to reply with a simple +1 - but I've heard this pain and
>> proposal from a frightening number of people, something which allowed
>> you to use bytes with some of the sting methods would go a really  
>> long
>> way to solving a lot of peoples python 3 pain. I don't relish the  
>> idea
>> that once people start moving over, there might be a billion
>> implementations of "things like this".
>
> Given that the 3.x bytes and bytearray classes do retain text  
> methods like .capitalize(), which are meaningless for arbitrary  
> binary data, it is not clear to me what you are asking for or what  
> problem a new class would solve. I am curious though.
>

Ask the web-sig and wsgi folks for starters. I know they've  
experienced non-zero pain.