Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I agree that it makes sense to have consistent types in the output. > As for whether to add a new method or fix the existing one, I'm a bit > torn, but I'd probably opt for fixing the existing function rather > than adding a new one, just because I think there are few Python 3 > applications out there that are counting on the old behavior. (I > could be wrong though ;).
The point of a new method is to return the header as a human-readable string, rather than a list of tuples. It has added value besides leaving the old method alone ;) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6302> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com