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

[Maxim Khitrov]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Correct.

- Max