Re: getmail failing for messages with invalid uncode

On 17-10-2021 17:05, Charles Cazabon wrote:

> Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Roland appears to have run getmail through the 2to3 converter [...]
>> I see.  Well, I probably would have started here too to be honest.
> Sure, it's obvious.  And on small scripts the results can be ... well, not
> pretty, but okay enough to use.  On larger projects the results can be not
> great at all - you basically have to refactor and clean up the whole thing
> just to make it readable.
>
>> Did you ever try running it through the 2to3 converter yourself?
> Do you seriously have to ask that?  You really think I wouldn't have done
> that?
>
> Yes, of course I did that.  And the resulting code is not something I would be
> proud to put my name on.
>
>>> if you want to fork getmail, or work with Roland on his fork, and then
>>> send me [...] patches 
>> Hmm, if anyone were to do this with anyone, it would be with *you* because
>> you are the one who has to ultimately accept it.
> I'm happy to offer advice to someone running into specific issues doing this
> sort of work, but they don't have to partner with me to do it.  You
> (generically; whoever's doing this) generate the patches the way I said and
> send them to me, one at a time.  I review them, we can iterate if there are
> things I think could be improved, and then move on the next one.
>
> I don't *have* to be involved until that submission.

another good reason to name "getmail6" without 'getmail'.

> Charles


Regards

Geert Stappers

Who learnt from this thread that Python3 is NOT so good at unicode as
advertised ...