Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org> added the comment: 2009/12/5 Scott Dial <rep...@bugs.python.org>: > > Scott Dial <sc...@scottdial.com> added the comment: > > Ben, I understand that we are all volunteers here. My frustration in the > lack of a de facto owner of the imaplib module and not with you > personally or any other committer for that matter.\
Unfortunately imaplib predates the focus for stability in Python. > > As it is, there is no unittests for the imaplib module, and I am not in > a position to provide a complete implementation of an IMAP server. There is a stub in test_imaplib.py. I wouldn't expect a complete test suite, but merely a test exposing the bug you are fixing. Every step counts. > However, I have attached a simple script demonstrating the issue. An > unpatched trunk will infinite loop, consuming memory, and a patched > version will throw a Traceback immediately. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5949> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
