Re: Hello
Tony Nelson <[email protected]>
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At 16:41 -0500 2009/03/30, Barry Warsaw wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Tony Nelson wrote: > >>I'm Tony Nelson. ... ... >Hi Tony, welcome to the email sig! Thank you. >I'm actually sprinting on the >email package today at Pycon. Chris Withers joined me until he had to >fly home. Bug 1974 was Chris's particular itch and I now think I have >a fix for this that isn't horrible, though unfortunately it will only >land in 2.7 and shouldn't be back ported. A worthy issue. Hopefully header parsing and generation can be cleaned up more befre 2.7/3.1 so that proper RFC2822 2.2.3 folding can be the norm. For example, unstructured header fields such as Subject: have whitespace as part of the unstructured token, and structured fields can skip whitespace, so leading whitespace should not be stripped by FeedParser._parse_headers(). This would help with idempotency. >>Currently I've filed "[issue5610] email feedparser.py CRLFLF bug: $ vs >>\Z". ... ... >> I might be persuaded to review or fix other open issues. > >Very cool, thanks. I'll look at the above issues after I land the >patch for 1974. Ack. Only one issue yet [issue5610]; I want to know if I'm doing it right before filing others. >My plan for the email package is: > >* Fix what we can for Python 2.7 but be very conservative with back >ports to 2.6 >* Ignore 3.0 >* Work on a new API so that we can actually fix the horrible >brokenness of email in Python 3. Hmm, I haven't used Python 3 yet, and didn't know about that. I suppose it is due to bytes/unicode confusion? There should be an "obvious" place for users to get a current email package suitable for at least the last few Python 2.x, at least if it starts getting more love again. I don't know quite where that should be, whether a SourceForge (or similar) page, a listing on PyPI, both, or what. Just something simpler than a SVN checkout. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:[email protected]> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>