Bugs item #756982, was opened at 2003-06-18 22:19 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by akuchling You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=756982&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Extension Modules Group: Python 2.3 Status: Open Resolution: None >Priority: 1 Private: No Submitted By: Ben Leslie (benno37) Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Summary: mailbox should use email not rfc822 Initial Comment: The mailbox module uses the rfc822 module as its default factory for creating message objects. The rfc822 documentation claims that its use is deprecated. The mailbox module should probably use the new email module as its default factory. Of course this has backward compatibility issues, in which case it should at least be mentioned in the mailbox documentation that it uses the deprecated rfc822 module, and provide an example of how to use the email module instead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling) Date: 2007-01-05 09:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=11375 Originator: NO The reworking of mailbox.py introduced in Python 2.5 adds new mailbox classes that do use email.Message. Arguably we could begin deprecating the old classes (or just remove them all for Python 3000?). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter) Date: 2005-01-10 02:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=29957 Given the amount of code out there using rfc822, should we instead PDW it? In any case, I'm -0 on putting a DeprecationWarning on it unless we've removed all use of it from the stdlib. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2005-01-08 10:49 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 It's a good question. I'd like to say yes so that we can start adding deprecation warnings to rfc822 for Python 2.5. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Johannes Gijsbers (jlgijsbers) Date: 2005-01-08 09:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=469548 So, with the plans to seriously start working deprecating rfc822, should we use the email module as the default factory now? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw) Date: 2003-06-20 17:48 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=12800 I've added some sample code to the mailbox documentation that explain how to use the email package with the mailbox module. We can't change the default for backward compatibility reasons, as you point out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=756982&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
