> What if you've got a PNG as one of the multipart components? With a > Content-Transfer-Encoding of "binary"? There's no way to represent that > as a string.
Sure is. Any byte sequence can be interpreted as latin-1. Not that I think this would be a good thing to do. > I wonder if we're misunderstanding each other here. The "mail > message" itself is essentially a binary data structure, not a sequence > of strings, though many of its fields consist of carefully specified > string values. Is that what you're saying? I don't think so - I assume Barry really wants to use strings as the data type to represent the internal structure. It works fine for all aspects except for the 8bit and binary content-transfer-encodings. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
