[Python-Dev] Polymorphic best practices [was: (Not) delaying the 3.2 release]

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 17, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>Also, I don't understand why an application would want to assemble an
>e-mail by itself if it doesn't know how to do so, and produces wrong
>data. Why not simply let the application do:
>
>m = Message()
>m.add_header("From", "Accented Bàrry <barry at python.org>")
>m.add_body("Hello Barry")

Very often you'll start with a template of a message your application wants to
send.  Then you'll interpolate a few values into it, and you'd like to easily
convert the result into an RFC valid email.

Is that template bytes or text (or either)?

-Barry
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