[Python-Dev] Patch making the current email package (mostly) support bytes

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 08, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>Ouch.  RFC 822 line wrapping is a bytes->bytes transformation, and the
>client shouldn't see it at all unless it inspects the wire format.

Header wrapping sucks even more because it's supposed to take the semantic
context into account, which means that a generic Header wrapping algorithm
cannot work for everything.  E.g. Received: headers are supposed to wrap after
the semicolon.  The current email package does a pretty poor job of emulating
this requirement, though it often gets it right enough.  David has plans for
addressing this problem.

-Barry
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