R. David Murray <[email protected]> added the comment:
It's a plan to redesign the email API so that it can easily manipulate both
bytes and strings as needed, with a backward compatibility layer that allows
the current API to be used if all you need to do is process strings. If we're
lucky there may be a PyPI package that backports it to 2.x, although there the
backward compatibility API will probably only work if you don't ever want to
decode the message to unicode :(.
It is a project of the email-sig, but currently I'm the only one actively
working on the code.
There are design documents in the wiki:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Email%20SIG
the current code (which of course is in the middle of various transformations
and the docs aren't completely up to date) is on launchpad in deference to
Barry:
https://launchpad.net/python-email6
I welcome your comments!
(*) email4 is the package in most of the actively used versions of Python2.x,
email5 is the version in 3.0/3.1/3.2, email6 will hopefully be the version in
3.3.
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