Re: [Email-SIG] Dropping bytes "support" in json
Nick Coghlan <[email protected]>
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Barry Warsaw wrote: >> Of course, one could use message.header and message.bythdr and they'd >> be the same length. > > I was trying to figure out what a 'thdr' was that we'd want to index > 'by' it. :) In the discussions about os.environ, the suggested approach was to just tack a 'b' onto the end of the name to get the bytes version (i.e. os.environb). That aligns nicely with the b"" prefix for bytes literals, and isn't much of a typing or reading burden when dealing with the bytes API instead of the text one. A similar naming scheme (i.e. msg.headers and msg.headersb) would probably work for email as well. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/python-python-dev%40m.gmane.org