[Python-ideas] New imaplib implementation for Python 3.2+ standard library

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jul 25 22:01:34 CEST 2011


On 7/25/2011 3:42 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:

> That's not something you'd have to worry about anyway - new features,
> modules, and packages would only be accepted in the next 3.x release (3.3).

And should be written in Py 3 style. In particular, long sequences 
should generally be returned as iterables rather than as lists.
If I understood the proposal, fetch does that, where as old imaplib 
waited to create a finished list.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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