Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Generator converts 8bit bodies into 7bit bodies by applying an > appropriate 7bit CTE. The reason it does this is that the output of > Generator will often be passed to some other Python library function > (most often smtplib) that can only handle ASCII unicode input.
What do you mean, ASCII *unicode* input? Any low-level network library should accept bytes when arbitrary data is possible. Enforcing 7-bit means things like binary attachments can grow larger for no real reason. Also, raw message bodies become less readable (which obviously is very minor issue). > The statement about string input and output is a description of email > *5.0*, the existing email package in 3.0 and 3.1, before my patch. > The differences between 4.0 and 5.0 were never previously added to the > docs, so I had to add them in order to then describe the differences > between 5.0 and 5.1. Ah, my bad. Sorry. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4661> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
