Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: Here is an updated patch, but it's a work in progress.
Since we are breaking compatibility anyway, I think a larger cleanup is deserved. For example: - remove old exception aliases - make return types consistent (for example, newgroups() should returned structured data as list() does) - use datetime.datetime objects instead of consuming and producing dates and times as 6-character strings Additional useful features could be added: - automatic querying of CAPABILITIES on connection - a higher-level over() method able to parse the response as a list of header dicts (using LIST OVERVIEW.FMT), with appropriately decoded values (thanks email.header.decode_header()) - ... Also, we should add an internal mock NNTP server to easily test features. Relying on gmane is nice for simple basic tests, but not much more. Does it sound reasonable? ---------- stage: patch review -> Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18872/nntplib_cleanup2.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9360> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
