Re: [Python-Dev] Dropping bytes "support" in json

On Apr 10, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Shouldn't this thread move lock stock and .signature to email-sig?

Yep.  I'll try to be more conscientious about removing python-dev from  
the CC.

> "Idempotency"?  I'm not sure what that means in the context of the
> email package ... multiplication by zero?<wink>  Do you mean that
> .parse().to_wire() should be idempotent?  Yes, I think that's a good
> idea, and it shouldn't be too hard to implement by (optionally?)
> caching the whole original message or individual components (headers
> with all whitespace including folding cached verbatim, etc).  I think
> caching has to be done, since stuff like "did the original fold with a
> leading tab or a leading space, and at what column" and so on seems
> kind of pointless to encode as attributes on Header objects.

I tend to agree.  I'm also happy of there's a way to tell say the  
parser that an application doesn't care about that.  All that extra  
caching will have a memory overhead that you should only pay for if  
you care.

-Barry