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

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/21/2010 1:58 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> As for "Think Carefully About It Every Time", that is required only in
> Porting Programs That Mix Operation On Bytes With Operation On Str.

The 2.x anti-pattern

> If you write programs from scratch, however, the decode-process-encode
> paradigm quickly becomes second nature.

Except in this particular arena, it already should be to anyone reading 
this list. Decorate-sort-undecorate is another example of the same idea. 
Transform-compute-untransform is the basis of NP-complete theory. 
Frequency domain processing sandwiched between forward and reverse 
Fourier transforms is a third example. And so on.

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Terry Jan Reedy